We wanted to see Tumalo Falls on our way to the next stop, so we put the address in our GPS and proceeded forward. We ended up at some dirt road where all of the trees seemed halfway burned down, we drove around a bit looking for a trailhead but no luck. We then decided to do a little investigating before wasting any more time. We found out that there was a random road we drove to called Tumalo Street, and we still had an hour to go to get there, so we continued forward. We then reached another (steep) dirt road where we saw some bikers emerging from so we decided to entrust in our GPS and go down it. Bad mistake. Little did we know at the time we were literally driving down a rocky dirt trail used for bikers and hikers in our little hybrid ford fusion! After our GPS tried to reroute us deeper into the woods we decided to turn back again and head to the nearest trailhead we saw. Needless to say, Tumalo Falls was not a very easy waterfall to find. We finally found it but our expectations were to hike 7 miles (roundtrip) to see it.... it ended up being about 200ft to the overlook from our car. I wasn't too disappointed by this because I was kind of over looking for this waterfall and was glad it was a park and look situation. Since we had a little extra time we decided to just go into the town of Bend and get some dinner and treat ourselves to a nice hotel for the night.
