Frenchman Falls is a 200-foot waterfall in Grant County, Washington, in the Columbia Plateau region. It lies about 14.6 miles south of Quincy and roughly 39.7 miles northeast of Yakima as the crow flies.
At 200 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Washington’s 941 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 199th; the typical Washington waterfall is about 82 feet. The tallest single drop is 100 feet. By form it is a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another, combined with a plunge character. It falls in 3 drops.
The Columbia Plateau is a vast expanse of layered basalt flows covered by sagebrush steppe, grassland and dryland wheat. Waterfalls here drop over basalt cliffs in coulees and river canyons carved by ancient floods.
Grant County holds 15 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Ancient Lake Falls, a 100-foot tiered plunge waterfall, is about 8.2 miles away. Upper Ancient Lakes Falls, a 20-foot segmented plunge waterfall, is about 8.2 miles away. Crater Coulee Falls, is about 14.7 miles away.
Frenchman Falls is located at 47.0347° N, 119.9548° W. The listing is based on the World Waterfall Database, one of the sources compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey in its inventory of waterfalls and rapids of the conterminous United States. The exact position has not yet been verified on aerial imagery, so treat the map pin as approximate. Details on trails, parking and access have not been documented for this waterfall yet.