Upper Clarence Creek Falls is a waterfall on Clarence Creek in Tillamook County, Oregon, in the Coast Range region, with a total height of about 40 feet. It lies about 14.2 miles north of Grand Ronde and roughly 36.3 miles southwest of Hillsboro as the crow flies.
At 40 feet it is on the modest side for Oregon, where the typical waterfall with a recorded height stands around 54 feet; it ranks 260th of 425. The water comes down as a veiling waterfall, a thin sheet of water spread over the rock face, combined with a horsetail character.
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; the biggest of them reaches 55 feet.
There are 57 recorded waterfalls in Tillamook County. Lower Clarence Creek Falls, a 55-foot tiered 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.
Upper Clarence Creek Falls is located at 45.2639° N, 123.6406° 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.