Here at Palouse Falls State Park, near Starbuck, Washington, the Palouse River runs through a narrow cataract and drops 200 feet to a churning bowl. From there, the current races through a gorge of columnar basalt to its southern end at the Snake River. It was named the State Waterfall in 2014. The site's steep cliffs are extremely dangerous. In the five months before this photograph was taken alone, four visitors had fallen to their death there. Photo by Carol Highsmith.