Youngs River Falls
Oregon · height not recorded · Last verified 2026-05-15
Flow at Youngs River Falls is 65 cfs today, around its seasonal average.
Expect dry conditions today — don't drive out for this one. Flow is at 69.8 cfs (bottom 0% of the last 30 days, vs. 105 cfs average). The 7-day NOAA forecast shows no significant rain.
Right now
Streamflow
65 cfs
NEHALEM RIVER AT JEWELL, · 50m ago
Overnight
51°F
Patchy Fog
Friday
63°F
Areas Of Fog then Mostly Cloudy
Today's daylight
Sunrise 5:33 AM · Sunset 9:06 PM · 15h 33m
Snapshot built 4m ago. Sources: USGS · NWS PQR.
Youngs River Falls is a waterfall in Clatsop County, Oregon. Height has not been officially recorded. Access details and conditions have not yet been verified in person by Fallspots — the data on this page comes from OpenStreetMap and USGS GNIS.
Youngs River Falls sits in Clatsop County, Oregon. The base sits at roughly 190 feet of elevation. Drive time is about 8 minutes from River Point. A trail — Young River Falls — runs within 40 meters of the marked location. No public parking is recorded within 2 km, so a longer approach is likely. This is one of the more frequently visited falls in the state by our popularity model. Source records come from OpenStreetMap and USGS GNIS.
Youngs River Falls is a 54-foot (16 m) tall waterfall on the Youngs River in central Clatsop County, northwestern Oregon, United States. They are located about 10 miles (16 km) south of Astoria.
Is the water flowing right now?
Most waterfall sites don't tell you this. The waterfall itself is almost never gauged, but a USGS streamgage in the same watershed can tell you whether snowmelt has started, peaked, or run dry.
USGS gage 14300350 · 17 mi away
NEHALEM RIVER AT JEWELL, OR
— Distant gauge — proxy reading, not on the same drainage.
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30-day streamflow
Below 30-day average↻ Same date last year: 47.7 cfs · 146% of last year — significantly wetter
Compare to nearby falls
If this one isn't the right fit, here's how it stacks up against the closest documented falls. Every column is filterable on the site — not buried in 13,000 reviews.
| Waterfall | Distance | Height | Trail | Dogs | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Youngs River Falls (this page) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Barth Falls | 5 mi | — | — | — | — |
| Fishhawk Falls | 12 mi | — | — | — | — |
| Gnat Creek Falls | 15 mi | — | — | — | — |
| North Fork Falls | 18 mi | — | — | — | — |
| Hug Point Falls | 18 mi | — | — | — | — |
Questions visitors ask about Youngs River Falls
Answers built from our structured data. If a question isn't here, the fact is unverified — we'd rather omit than guess.
How far is Youngs River Falls from a major city?
Youngs River Falls is 5 miles from River Point (about 8 minutes' drive).
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Where it is
46.0672, -123.7898
Sources and live status
Where we got the data, and where to check current conditions before you drive.
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngs_River_Falls
Wikidata (Q8058631)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8058631
GeoNames (5762176)
https://www.geonames.org/5762176/
Last verified by Fallspots: 2026-05-15
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