Mill Creek Falls
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Mill Creek Falls is a waterfall in Oregon, at a modelled elevation of 717 m. Union Peak stands 2,315 m to the east-northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Prospect State Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Rogue-Umpqua passes 0.6 miles off.
The story
Mill Creek Falls, is a waterfall located in the Rogue River Canyon within the Prospect State Scenic Viewpoint in Jackson County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. The waterfall is located at the south end of Mill Creek as it plunges into the Rogue River over a carved cliff surrounded by walls of petrified volcanic ash consequence of Mount Mazama eruption. Mill Creek Falls shares the same rock cliff with Barr Creek Falls. Both waterfalls can be seen next to each other from their respective viewpoints. With a height of 173 feet, Mill Creek Falls is among the tallest waterfalls in Oregon.
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Wikidata Q55137100, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Height
- 52.7 m
How to reach it
- 0.6 mi off the Rogue-Umpqua, National
- 18.7 mi off the Volcanic Legacy, National
- 25.2 mi off the Myrtle Creek-Canyonville
Overlooks nearby
- White Point Lookout · 4 mi
- Viewpoint Mike · 11 mi
- Rogue Gorge chasm · 12 mi
- Rogue Gorge · 12 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- White Point: 3.6 mi
- Whetstone Point: 3.8 mi
- Bald Mountain: 4.6 mi
- Halls Point: 5.2 mi
- Round Mountain: 5.5 mi
- Cold Spring: 11.3 mi
- Bigfoot Spring: 14.2 mi
- Boulder Spring: 14.3 mi
- Buckley Spring: 14.4 mi
- Fawn Spring: 14.5 mi
- Prospect State Park: 0.6 mi
- Aiken County Park: 3.1 mi
- Joseph H Stewart County Park Day Use Area: 8.3 mi
- McLeod Wayside: 10.7 mi
- Rivers Edge Park: 10.7 mi
- Blue Grotto: 7.9 mi
- Boston Bluff: 14.3 mi
- Elephant Head: 14.5 mi
- Savage Bluffs: 16.2 mi
- Whitehorse Bluff: 17.7 mi
- Nob falls: 9.6 mi
- Rumley falls: 10.1 mi
- Butte Falls: 13.9 mi
- Red Blanket Falls: 14.0 mi
- Seven Lakes Falls: 14.3 mi
- Woodruff Bridge Day Use Area: 8.4 mi
- Lodgepole Picnic Area: 19.1 mi
- Goodbye Picnic Area: 19.5 mi
- Goodbye Picnic Area: 19.6 mi
- Annie Falls (and Udo's): 20.0 mi
- Neville-Nye Memorial Grove: 5.6 mi
- Natural Bridge: 10.4 mi
- McGregor Park: 11.2 mi
- World's Tallest Sugarpine: 18.6 mi
- Abbott butte lookout: 14.3 mi
- Stephen Tyng Mather Plaque: 21.4 mi
- All Unknown Veterans Memorial: 24.2 mi
- 1st Marine Divisions of all Wars Memorial: 24.3 mi
- Persist: 6.0 mi
- Union Creek Wayside: 11.7 mi
- Lady of the Woods: 21.2 mi
- Crater Lake Lodge History: 21.4 mi
- Creekside Park Community Garden: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.5 miles of Mill Creek Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Peak | ENE 65° | 2,315 m | 15.1 mi |
| Jupiter | ESE 118° | 2,256 m | 14.9 mi |
| Lucifer Peak | ESE 117° | 2,244 m | 15.5 mi |
| Venus | ESE 116° | 2,229.6 m | 14.6 mi |
| Violet Hill | ESE 113° | 2,106.4 m | 14.5 mi |
| Tom Mountain | E 82° | 2,095.5 m | 12.9 mi |
| Jerry Mountain | E 82° | 2,075.078 m | 13.3 mi |
| Big Bunchgrass | E 99° | 2,024.5 m | 15.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:45 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:33 | 20:09 | 20:52 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:09 |
| December solstice | 07:38 | 15:54 | 16:40 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 42 | 45 | 49 | 56 | 62 | 70 | 69 | 64 | 54 | 44 | 39 |
| Precip in | 6.0 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 3.3 | 6.3 | 7.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Prospect 2 SW, 1 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–Jun — fullest in May, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 1,451 | 1,489 | 1,591 | 1,783 | 1,888 | 1,460 | 1,008 | 831 | 782 | 801 | 1,042 | 1,319 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Rogue River Below Prospect, OR, 1 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/5324809852
Day trips start here
- Crater Lake National Park · 24 mi
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