Cascade Creek Falls

RATING - 30.0

VR - 4.0 (Med) HR - 6.0 SR - 6/20

TYPE OF APPROACH - Roadside

DIFFICULTY - Very Easy

LOCATION - Deadhorse Creek Road

TYPE - Cascades

HEIGHT - 150'

WIDTH - 25'

GPS - N48 54.071 W121 50.970

ELEVATION - 1450'

DIRECTIONS - From Mt. Baker Highway, turn south onto Glacier Creek Road and make an immediate left onto Deadhorse Creek Road (signed for the Skyline Divide Trail). In about four miles you should see the falls off to the right side of the road.

Cascade Creek drops over a seemingly never ending series of small drops on its way down to the Nooksack River. Thanks to a few poorly placed trees, the entire falls are difficult to see from the road, but appear to be well over 100' tall. This would be a very highly ranked falls if there weren't so many trees in the way. Climbing higher up gives clear views of the middle of the falls, but the top gets lost behind the rocks along the way. Next time I'm in the area I'll climb all the way up the falls to see what's above.

There is a little controversy over whether or not this is actually Cascade Creek. The maps place the creek further to the east, but the only creek in that location is tiny. It appears that the majority of the flow of Cascade Creek has been diverted to run over this waterfall and the former location of the creek is now just a trickle. That's just speculation though. Bryan Swan refers to this as Little Cascade Falls on the NW Waterfall Survey.