Upper Kentucky Falls is a waterfall on Kentucky Creek in Douglas County, Oregon, in the Coast Range region, with a total height of about 88 feet. It lies about 15.2 miles east of Florence and roughly 36.6 miles west of Eugene as the crow flies.
At 88 feet it is taller than the typical Oregon waterfall of about 54 feet, ranking 130th of 425 with a recorded height. The tallest single drop is 69 feet. The water comes down as a segmented waterfall, splitting into two or more separate streams as it falls, 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. Kentucky Creek carries 2 recorded waterfalls; the biggest of them reaches 117 feet.
There are 88 recorded waterfalls in Douglas County. Lower Kentucky Falls, a 117-foot plunge waterfall, is under a mile away. North Fork Falls, a 125-foot veiling horsetail waterfall, is under a mile away. Beaver Creek Falls, a 20-foot segmented cascade waterfall, is about 4.5 miles away.
Upper Kentucky Falls is located at 43.9294° N, 123.8034° 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.