Youngs River Falls

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Youngs River Falls is a Template:Convert tall<ref name=wfn/> waterfall on the Youngs River in central Clatsop County, northwestern Oregon, United States.<ref name="gnis"/> They are located about Template:Convert south of Astoria.

History

The first Americans to report on the falls were members of a hunting party from the Lewis and Clark Expedition, in March 1806.<ref name=wfn/>

In the media

The falls have appeared in movies such as Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, Benji the Hunted and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III.<ref name=wfn/>

In July 2014, Tod Gary Wagoner, of Williamsburg, Colorado, died after jumping from the falls, the "first [such] fatality at the falls in a while."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In April 2016, Joseph T. Nestor, a 34-year-old Astoria man, fell and died from injuries at the falls.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>