# Helmcken Falls

- **Country:** Canada
- **Coordinates:** 51.954092, -120.176911
- **Type:** Plunging Punchbowl
- **Width:** 23 m
- **Height:** 141 m
- **Caption:** Helmcken Falls in Wells Gray Provincial Park
- **Location:** Wells Gray Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
- **Image Size:** 250px
- **Watercourse:** Murtle River
- **Average Flow:** 107 m3/s
- **Number Drops:** 1
- **Average Width:** 15 m

Helmcken Falls is a waterfall on the Murtle River within Wells Gray Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada. The protection of Helmcken Falls was one of the reasons for the creation of Wells Gray Provincial Park in 1939.

![Photo of Helmcken Falls](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Helmcken_Falls_Soft_%28189128621%29.jpeg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmcken_Falls (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)