Afternoon Multnomah Falls & Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls Tour from Portland

The van eases out of downtown Portland and the city’s grid gives way to a road that clings to the river. Within thirty minutes the air shifts—cooler, wetter—and the Columbia River Gorge opens like a vertical city of basalt and forest. On an afternoon tour you move through that city in concentrated bursts: a stop at a cliff-top overlook where Vista House stares across the canyon, a short walk to Latourell’s punch-bowl pool, a few photo frames from Horsetail Falls, and the slow, inevitable reveal of Multnomah Falls, where water divides and recombines in two dramatic stages.