Birch Creek Falls is a 600-foot waterfall on Birch Creek in Washington County, Utah, in the Colorado Plateaus region. It lies about 16 miles east of LaVerkin and roughly 34.4 miles east of Saint George as the crow flies.
At 600 feet it is among the ten tallest of the 18 Utah waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 2nd.
The Colorado Plateaus are a high desert of layered sandstone mesas, canyons and plateaus with pinyon-juniper woodland and sagebrush. Waterfalls here are often seasonal, spilling over sandstone ledges after storms or snowmelt.
Washington County holds 13 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Upper Emerald Pools Falls, 600 feet high, is about 1.6 miles away. Emerald Pools Falls, 100 feet high, is about 1.7 miles away. Pine Creek Falls, is about 2.1 miles away.
Birch Creek Falls is located at 37.2395° N, 112.9837° 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 creek name is confirmed against the federal Geographic Names Information System. 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.