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Send it to us here with a brief description the Central Washington scablands looked like a vastly different place than it does today The area was carved into its present appearance by catastrophic glacial flooding that took place over thousands of years near the end of the Pleistocene epoch as the last ice age came to a close You can still see the evidence for this geologically traumatic era in the carved channels and giant boulders strewn across the desert landscape The most dramatic evidence we have for this event is Dry Falls It’s a 400-foot-tall basalt cliff that stretches for 3 ½ miles along Highway 17 near Coulee City It’s one of the most breathtaking vistas in the state this was the largest waterfall on planet Earth — five times longer than Niagara Falls When the glacial flooding reached maximum flow geologists estimate that it carried 10 times the amount of water of all the world’s rivers combined over the ledge Imagine a wall of water 400 feet tall racing right at you for as far as the eye can see the area — comprising the entirety of Sun Lakes-Dry Falls State Park — is one of the finest state parks in Washington it makes for the perfect day trip or weekend getaway during the long there’s a little something for everyone here with 96 standard campsites and 41 full hookup sites that can be reserved The Dry Falls Visitor Center is situated right on the rim of the cliff giving you an unobstructed view of the entire expanse “It’s an American’s dream,” Central Washington University geology professor Nick Zentner said “You can just sit there and eat a sandwich and never leave your car and there it is right out your windshield You need a bathroom and it’s five steps this way To get a better sense of the cataclysms that occurred thousands of years ago here Zentner advises you leave the car behind and do a little bit of exploring The evidence of ice age trauma can best be observed up close in the massive potholes gouged into the desert floor These holes can be upward of 50 feet wide and as much as 50 feet deep “They’re big enough to have trees growing out of the bottom of them,” he said “Bats and great horned owls that nest in there ‘Are you telling me water did this?’ Because it is solid rock the area under the falls is as dramatic as it is beautiful The high walls of Umatilla Rock loom over the plains below while magpies and kestrels flutter from tree to tree Dry Falls Lake itself is stocked with rainbow trout and can be accessed by a small boat or canoe The scale of everything in and around the falls is a dead giveaway that something truly devastating happened here It’s impossible to ignore the house-sized boulders and deep wells that break up the landscape “Dry Falls and the Grand Coulee is world-famous,” Zentner said “People come from all over the world in geology to look at the features They know what sediment and river rock look like in normal situations They come out here to just be blown away.” Dry Falls joined the likes of the Grand Canyon and Mount Everest when the International Union of Geological Sciences selected it to be one of 100 geological heritage sites worldwide These sites are highlighted by the scientific community for their outsized impact in helping us better understanding Earth and its history For all the attention the local Cascade volcanoes like Mount Rainier and Mount St Dry Falls is the only location in the entire Pacific Northwest to earn that distinction There are certainly other places around the world that experienced glacial flooding during the last ice age and you can still adventure out and see those scars While there are also many other coulees and cliffs to explore throughout Washington nowhere else except Dry Falls is the experience as illustrative and awe-inspiring (And if you happen to bag a fish out of Perch Lake with a flycaster The opinions expressed in reader comments are those of the author only and do not reflect the opinions of The Seattle Times Stay secure and make sure you have the best reading experience possible by upgrading your browser Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.