SEATTLE — With more than 3,000 falls, the Evergreen State should probably be called the Waterfall State. “Waterfalls are one of our great natural wonders,” Chelsea Booker said. As a senior travel writer for the online travel guide, Travel Lemming , Booker has explored plenty of them, from Twin Falls on the South Fork of the Snohomish to Thurston County's Tumwater Falls, in the heart of an urban oasis .

“Even if you're just in a city, you can go somewhere. You can find a waterfall,” Booker said. Just outside Port Angeles, the conveniently located Madison Falls is the kind of quick stop that Booker calls a "lunchtime waterfall.

" “You go and you just have this magnificent waterfall as the backdrop as you're having your lunch or reading your book,” Booker said. Sol Doc Falls is also a short walk to a world away. “I’d say the most enchanting waterfall in the Olympic National Park,” Booker said, “It feels like a fairytale.

” Some spectacular waterfalls are hiding in plain sight. One of Booker’s favorites is Franklin Falls , tucked between the northbound and southbound viaducts of I-90 near Snoqualmie Pass. And Deception Falls rushes right beneath Highway 2 at Stevens Pass.

Others are a little tougher to get to, like Wallace Falls in the central Cascades, which requires a few miles of hiking. Located a full 50 miles up Lake Chelan in the remote Stehekin Valley, stunning Rainbow Falls - all 312 feet of it - is well worth the trip. Washington's official state .