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Rainbow Falls State Park
Rainbow Falls State Park is a public recreation area on the Chehalis River. It is situated off State Route 6 and is approximately 1.0 mile (1.6 km) east of Dryad, Washington.
The state park's 129 acres (52 ha) rests on grounds originally part of an inland sea. Geological features include 3,900 feet (1,200 m) of shoreline of basalt rock formed 17 million years ago and the waterfall for which the park is named. Surviving old-growth trees, some of the last standing in the Chehalis Valley, occupy the site.
The park was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, completed in 1935. Flooding of the Chehalis River has led to several damages at the park, including the loss of some waterfall features and a popular footbridge after the Great Coastal Gale of 2007.
Amenities include campgrounds, miles of trails, and can be accessed by a short spur route of the Willapa Hills Trail. Rainbow Falls State Park is the end point of the annual Pe Ell River Run that began in 1978.
Rainbow Falls was used by the Upper Chehalis people as a fishing site for lampreys. The area was eventually in the hands of private ownership, used for a time as a community park, and in 1933, was traded for other state lands.
The area was named as Rainbow Falls State Park, with two theories over the origin of the moniker. One version suggests that the name was given by a citizen from Dryad who served in a World War I military division known as the Rainbow Division. The more accepted, second theory is that the designation derived from the rainbows formed due to the rushing waters. Local history speaks of early settlers in the area referring to the rapids as Rainbow Falls.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Company 1633, built the park, its log structures, and a popular footbridge over the falls, completing the grounds in 1935. The grounds contained an old growth forest spared during the site's early years. The park was noted for having the tallest flag pole at a CCC camp, measuring 135 feet (41.1 m) in height.
During the construction in April 1934, a group of 28 Black employees from Illinois were assigned to the CCC camp at Rainbow Falls. The Black men lived in segregated barracks, but unlike stricter separation requirements noted at Millersylvania State Park at the same time, the camp's workers often labored side-by-side. The enrollees were reassigned after their first six-month term of service following a CCC directive that no Black employees were allowed to work outside the borders of their own states. The edict officially introduced a segregation mandate.
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Rainbow Falls State Park
Rainbow Falls State Park is a public recreation area on the Chehalis River. It is situated off State Route 6 and is approximately 1.0 mile (1.6 km) east of Dryad, Washington.
The state park's 129 acres (52 ha) rests on grounds originally part of an inland sea. Geological features include 3,900 feet (1,200 m) of shoreline of basalt rock formed 17 million years ago and the waterfall for which the park is named. Surviving old-growth trees, some of the last standing in the Chehalis Valley, occupy the site.
The park was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, completed in 1935. Flooding of the Chehalis River has led to several damages at the park, including the loss of some waterfall features and a popular footbridge after the Great Coastal Gale of 2007.
Amenities include campgrounds, miles of trails, and can be accessed by a short spur route of the Willapa Hills Trail. Rainbow Falls State Park is the end point of the annual Pe Ell River Run that began in 1978.
Rainbow Falls was used by the Upper Chehalis people as a fishing site for lampreys. The area was eventually in the hands of private ownership, used for a time as a community park, and in 1933, was traded for other state lands.
The area was named as Rainbow Falls State Park, with two theories over the origin of the moniker. One version suggests that the name was given by a citizen from Dryad who served in a World War I military division known as the Rainbow Division. The more accepted, second theory is that the designation derived from the rainbows formed due to the rushing waters. Local history speaks of early settlers in the area referring to the rapids as Rainbow Falls.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Company 1633, built the park, its log structures, and a popular footbridge over the falls, completing the grounds in 1935. The grounds contained an old growth forest spared during the site's early years. The park was noted for having the tallest flag pole at a CCC camp, measuring 135 feet (41.1 m) in height.
During the construction in April 1934, a group of 28 Black employees from Illinois were assigned to the CCC camp at Rainbow Falls. The Black men lived in segregated barracks, but unlike stricter separation requirements noted at Millersylvania State Park at the same time, the camp's workers often labored side-by-side. The enrollees were reassigned after their first six-month term of service following a CCC directive that no Black employees were allowed to work outside the borders of their own states. The edict officially introduced a segregation mandate.
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