Cougar Creek Falls is a 190-foot waterfall on Cougar Creek in Chelan County, Washington, in the North Cascades region. It lies about 15.7 miles west of Granite Falls and roughly 72.7 miles east of Sammamish as the crow flies.
At 190 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Washington’s 941 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 235th; the typical Washington waterfall is about 82 feet.
The North Cascades are a wilderness of jagged peaks, glaciers and deep, forested valleys of western hemlock, silver fir and Douglas fir, with some of the heaviest snowfall in the country. Meltwater from glaciers and snowfields pours down thousands of feet of cliffs in countless cascades and horsetail falls. Cougar Creek carries 10 recorded waterfalls; the biggest of them reaches 205 feet.
Chelan County holds 183 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Signal Peak Falls, a 300-foot tiered plunge waterfall, is about 4.4 miles away. Burns Creek Falls, a 125-foot tiered horsetail waterfall, is about 5 miles away. Mott Creek Falls, is about 5 miles away.
Cougar Creek Falls is located at 47.8560° N, 120.5493° 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.