Green River Gorge Resort

Amazing! This is a hike at your own risk type of place. It is absolutely beautiful and completely representative of the PNW. This is the entrance to the gorge area and it is private property, not a state park so you do pay $5 per person(totally worth it). I will have to come back on a hot summer day to swim but our experience was magical, arrived at 9:30AM paid the fee at the entrance and walked in, we had the place to ourselves, there’s no map or directions so it was the most beautiful, serene gorge adventure I’ve been to. Unfortunately there’s graffiti on the rocks and trash all over the place(there were boxers on a tree, cigarettes, broken glass, etc). Hopefully we become more conscious and pack out whatever we brought in. I hope you get to enjoy this beautiful place as much as we did.

This place is awesome, lots of hangout spots, caves, viewpoints, a couple of trails, and MOST IMPORTANT good cliff diving and jump spots anywhere from 10’ to 30’ to 60/70’. The water runs off Mt Rainier, so it’s cold but 100% worth the jumps. The folks who run it are nice and just charge $5 and give good instructions. Super fun hike and best spot near Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue if you want to hang with some friends/family and sent it without driving too far, also see a lot of good views without too much hiking or elevation gain. There is not cell service (don’t litter or ruin this place please I swear)

This Sunday was my first time visiting and I didn’t know what to expect, but this place was absolutely gorgeous. To get to the river is just a hop, skip, and 150-60 or so stairs to the bottom. I packed hiking shoes because I wasn’t sure if it would be a trek to get to the river and falls, but the swimming area is almost directly beneath the gorge bridge so not much is needed to get there. As the owners will explain, when the rocks are wet they are incredibly slippery, so be careful. Another thing to note is that we visited on a sunny weekend, and it was pretty busy.

For parking, I would recommend parking at the Franklin Ghost Town parking lot, which you will make a right turn into BEFORE crossing the gorge bridge. It seems like overflow parking goes there, and on the day that we visited someone was out in the parking lot taking the $5 per person entree fee in exchange for tickets to park and pass through the entry gate. They accept cash, card, or cash app for the fee.

This trailer park (long term renters) has a fabulous property which they open to the public for $5 a head. Just pay at the pay station at the office and head through the gate on the office porch (to the left) to get to the waterfall, under the waterfall, and down to the river for swimming, a rope swing (on the other side), and cliff jumping.

We went Memorial Day and the water was still cold, but that didn't stop our teenagers from jumping in. There was even a part that was calm enough to put paddleboards in. We will be back again this summer!

The trail is just an adventure 😅 we came underprepared for the muddy conditions but our flat. We still had a great time and very muddy shoes:) loved it! Will be back in summer to explore some more. Water is pretty high now.