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Little Illinois River Falls

Cave Junction, OR

Located in southwest Oregon, the Little Illinois River Falls offers a full, six-foot drop when the water level is up. It is part of the Little Illinois River Wild and Scenic River, which flows from the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest boundary to its confluence with the Wild and Scenic Rogue River, a distance of 50 miles. The river's outstandingly remarkable activities include white water recreation, fishing, and hiking.

With the rains comes the Illinois River’s wild chinook salmon but the window is extremely narrow to see large numbers of fish at the falls. It all depends on the timing of fall rains, which bring the salmon upriver, and then the right amount of water is required for them to get over the falls, but not so much to wash them out.