Iceberg Lake Falls is a 550-foot waterfall on Burnboot Creek in King County, Washington, in the North Cascades region. It lies about 20.5 miles east of Tanner and roughly 37.3 miles east of Sammamish as the crow flies.
At 550 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Washington’s 941 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 65th; the typical Washington waterfall is about 82 feet. By form it is a horsetail, where the water keeps some contact with the bedrock as it falls.
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. Burnboot Creek carries 2 recorded waterfalls, and Iceberg Lake Falls is the tallest of them.
King County holds 236 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Upper Lemah Valley Falls, a 150-foot tiered horsetail waterfall, is about 1.4 miles away. Whinnimic Falls, a 350-foot plunge waterfall, is about 1.6 miles away. Chimney Rock Falls, an 800-foot tiered horsetail waterfall, is about 1.7 miles away.
Iceberg Lake Falls is located at 47.4994° N, 121.3084° 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.