Multnomah Falls Lodge and Footpath

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

One of 650 National Register listings published here for Multnomah County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. NE of Bridal Veil on Old Columbia River Hwy., Bridal Veil, 97019
When was it listed? April 1981
Category. building
Census division. Corbett
National Register reference number. 81000512 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Multnomah Falls Lodge and Footpath between 1992 and 2020, burning about 346 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Debris and open burning	15
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Other causes	6
Fireworks	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pacific Cascade Region-DNR	STONEHORSE
5 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	260 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ARCHER MOUNTAIN
3 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	WAHKEENA
3 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	AINSWORTH
29 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	PARK
28 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MILEPOST 31
27 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	DODSON
26 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	ONEONTA

Every fire recorded in Multnomah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Multnomah Falls Lodge and Footpath: 13 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Larch Mountain Clay	Clay	Occurrence
Larch Mountain Clay	Clay	Occurrence
Bridal Veil	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Raymond Smith	Stone	Past Producer
Bridal Veil Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Raymond Smith Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Multnomah County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Columbia River Highway Historic District	4.1 miles	1983
Andreas Graf House	6.4 miles	1980
Vista House	6.7 miles	1974
View Point Inn	7.1 miles	1985
Columbia River Highway Historic District	7.2 miles	1983
Columbia River Highway Historic District	7.4 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000512 in Record Group 79.
Multnomah County	All 650 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.