Wahclella Falls Trail, a popular waterfall hike in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, has reopened for the first time since the Eagle Creek Fire.

The trail was closed the evening of Sept. 4, 2017, two days after the 48,000-acre Eagle Creek Fire ignited. In 2018, a Forest Service trail crew repairing the trail encountered large rocks, some as large as basketballs, falling from the slopes above the hike. By spring of 2019, landslides and rockfall had altered parts of the trail and more work was needed to clear and stabilize it.