VR - 6 (Med)               HR - 4.0                  SR - 20/20

TYPE OF APPROACH - Trail

DIFFICULTY - Easy

LOCATION - Bacon Creek Road

TYPE - Tiered

HEIGHT - 70'

WIDTH - 15'

Lazy Bear falls starts off by dropping over a 20' plunge, followed immediately by the main drop, a 50' tall segmented drop into a beautiful pool.  This is a great falls for photography because there are a ton of different angles to play with once you get to the creek.  The falls are one of the few falls that look good with both a slow and fast shutter speed.  Lazy Bear Falls quickly became one of my favorites after my first two visits and I will definitely keep returning.

I originally heard about this waterfall on Falls Creek via a picture taken by Pat Buller.  There are too many Falls Creek Falls already and this falls is nice enough to get a special name.  I couldn't come up with anything until my second trip to the falls.  I drove into the camp area to see a black bear sitting right next to the fire pit munching on something.  I expected him to take off when he saw me but he just sat there so I honked.  He slowly looked up at me then went back to eating.   I honked again . . . same thing.  My camera was in the trunk so I started to back up so I could safely get it out.  When he heard me backing up he slowly got up and wandered off into the woods.  I later found an empty bag of Sun Chips by the fire pit so I think he was licking the salt from the inside.  I found his laziness to be both quite humorous but also insulting to other hard working bears out there (Yogi, Smokey, etc).  I named the falls Lazy Bear Falls after this guy.