Lower Clarence Creek Falls is a waterfall on Clarence Creek in Tillamook County, Oregon, in the Coast Range region, with a total height of about 55 feet. It lies about 14.1 miles north of Grand Ronde and roughly 36.3 miles southwest of Hillsboro as the crow flies.
At 55 feet it is taller than the typical Oregon waterfall of about 54 feet, ranking 209th of 425 with a recorded height. The tallest single drop is 35 feet. The water comes down as a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another, combined with a horsetail character. It falls in 2 drops.
The Coast Range is a belt of steep, deeply dissected hills along the Pacific, wrapped in dense temperate rainforest of Douglas fir, western hemlock, Sitka spruce and red alder. Heavy winter rain feeds short, fast creeks lined with ferns, salmonberry and moss that drop steeply toward the ocean or the Columbia. Clarence Creek carries 2 recorded waterfalls, and Lower Clarence Creek Falls is the tallest of them.
There are 57 recorded waterfalls in Tillamook County. Upper Clarence Creek Falls, a 40-foot veiling horsetail waterfall, is under a mile away. Nenamusa Falls, is about 2.6 miles away. Alder Glen Falls, a 30-foot veiling horsetail waterfall, is about 3 miles away.
Lower Clarence Creek Falls is located at 45.2631° N, 123.6411° 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.