The best-known waterfalls in Washington
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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Snoqualmie Falls is 15 km from Issaquah, with Fantastic Falls 23 km from the same town. Most of the rest of Washington's list is backcountry: Franklin Falls and Deception Falls in the Cascades, Narada Falls, Christine Falls and Comet Falls on Mount Rainier, and Palouse Falls alone in the east of the state. Bellingham has Whirlpool Falls 4 km out; Marymere Falls is 28 km from Port Angeles.
Washington's 408 named waterfalls are more than any other kind of place RLQuest knows in the state, though only 30 have a Wikipedia article. Lighthouses (27) are the other Washington page. Waterfalls here often come in sets, like Lower Copper Falls, Middle Copper Falls and Upper Copper Falls, which makes for a quest with several checkpoints; the app records the whole route and colors in every tile of the climb.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
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RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
