Kanim Falls is a 280-foot waterfall on North Fork Snoqualmie River in King County, Washington, in the North Cascades region. It lies about 16.7 miles southeast of Gold Bar and roughly 27.8 miles east of Sammamish as the crow flies.
At 280 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Washington’s 941 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 140th; 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. North Fork Snoqualmie River carries 2 recorded waterfalls, and Kanim Falls is the tallest of them.
King County holds 236 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Paradise Lakes Falls, a 200-foot horsetail waterfall, is about 1 miles away. Coney Creek Falls, 1,000 feet high, is about 1.1 miles away. Waterfall 18 mi NE of Tanner, is about 1.4 miles away.
Kanim Falls is located at 47.6615° N, 121.4843° 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.