Benson Lake

AlanLichty

AlanLichty

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Benson Lake is a small lake at the base of both Wahkeena Creek as well as Multnomah Creek in the Columbia River Gorge. This has become by new stomping grounds for launching drone flights to get views of the many waterfalls along this stretch of the Gorge. The far end of the lake shows the freeway parking area for Multnomah Falls with the lodge area visible to the right of that. Neither Multnomah Falls or Wahkeena Falls are visible from this view although there is a small intermittent set of falls along the cliffs on the right. Benson Recreation area is directly below the drone in this view with the rail lines that make the edge of the no-fly zone just to the right of the lake. I can easily shoot the falls staying behind the rail lines since I have a telephoto lens on my drone. This shot was using the 24mm wide angle lens.

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C&C always welcome.
 
JimFox

JimFox

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I have always thought that was a cool lake but could never figure out the best way to capture it. I think this is it! Good job Alan.
 
AlanLichty

AlanLichty

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JimFox said:
I have always thought that was a cool lake but could never figure out the best way to capture it. I think this is it! Good job Alan.
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Thanks Jim - you need to be heading eastbound on I-84 to get into the Benson Recreation area and the parking lot you can see below. There are no pullouts between the Wahkeena parking area and Multnomah Lodge. This recreation area has a frisbee golf course in it so don't try to get in here on a summer weekend as that empty parking area will be rather full. On this cloudy cool weekday with very soggy soils the only ones there were a few fishermen up at the far end and my truck. From the air you get get great views of the waterfalls and you have already seen a few of those images.
 
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