Upper Sweetwater Creek Falls is a waterfall on Sweetwater Creek in Park County, Wyoming, in the Middle Rockies region, with a total height of about 720 feet. It lies about 34.5 miles west of Cody and roughly 102.2 miles southwest of Billings as the crow flies.
At 720 feet it is among the ten tallest of the 230 Wyoming waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 6th. The tallest single drop is 360 feet. The water comes down as a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another.
The Middle Rockies are high, glaciated mountain ranges with alpine peaks, subalpine fir and spruce forest, lodgepole pine and grassy intermontane valleys. Snowmelt streams cascade down glacial valleys and canyon walls. Sweetwater Creek carries 2 recorded waterfalls, and Upper Sweetwater Creek Falls is the tallest of them.
There are 114 recorded waterfalls in Park County. Sweetwater Creek Falls, 160 feet high, is under a mile away. Clearwater Basin Falls, a segmented waterfall, is about 1.8 miles away. Unnamed waterfall on Tributary of Sweetwater Creek, is about 1.8 miles away.
Upper Sweetwater Creek Falls is located at 44.5946° N, 109.7515° 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 position was verified on aerial imagery. Details on trails, parking and access have not been documented for this waterfall yet.