Cherry Lake Falls is a 78-foot waterfall on Cherry Creek in King County, Washington, in the Puget Lowland region. It lies about 6.6 miles northeast of Lake Marcel-Stillwater and roughly 14.6 miles northeast of Sammamish as the crow flies.
At 78 feet it is on the modest side for Washington, where the typical waterfall with a recorded height stands around 82 feet; it ranks 488th of 941. The tallest single drop is 39 feet. By form it is a segmented waterfall, splitting into two or more separate streams as it falls, combined with a horsetail character. It falls in 3 drops.
The Puget Lowland is a glacially shaped basin of low hills, lakes and wetlands between the Olympics and the Cascades, once covered by Douglas fir and western red cedar and now the most settled part of Washington. Streams here run through terraces of glacial till and outwash, with waterfalls where creeks cut through the deposits. Cherry Creek carries 5 recorded waterfalls, and Cherry Lake Falls is the tallest of them.
King County holds 236 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Upper Cherry Lake Falls, is under a mile away. Upper Cherry Creek Falls, a 25-foot veiling horsetail waterfall, is under a mile away. Cherry Creek Falls, a 25-foot segmented plunge waterfall, is about 2.4 miles away.
Cherry Lake Falls is located at 47.7664° N, 121.8256° 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.