# Nugget Falls

- **Type:** Cascade and Fan
- **Width:** 100 ft
- **Height:** 377 ft
- **Location:** East of Mendenhall Glacier, Auke Bay, Alaska
- **Photo Width:** 250
- **Watercourse:** Nugget Creek
- **Average Flow:** Perennial
- **Number Drops:** 2
- **Height Longest:** 278 ft

Nugget Falls, also known as Nugget Creek Falls or Mendenhall Glacier Falls, is a waterfall downstream of the Nugget Glacier, at the base of Bullard Mountain, in the U.S. state of Alaska. Formed by the creek from the Nugget Glacier, the waterfall drops in two tiers of and onto a sandbar in Mendenhall Lake, which is the freshwater pool at the face of the Mendenhall Glacier. The lake then drains via Mendenhall River into the Inside Passage. The waterfall is fed by Nugget Creek, which is in turn fed by the Nugget Glacier, a tributary glacier on the mountainside east of Auke Bay. The creek cascades down towards Mendenhall Lake, forming a hanging valley, then plunges over the falls to the lake. Prior to the recession of Mendenhall Glacier, it was said that the falls would drop "directly on the glacier",

![Photo of Nugget Falls](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Nugget_Falls_near_Mendenhall_Glacier%2C_Aug_2016.jpg)

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