Bacon Creek is a glacial stream in

Whatcom County Whatcom County is a county located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Washington, bordered by the Canadian Lower Mainland (the Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley Regional Districts of British Columbia) to the north, Okanogan Cou ...

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. It originates in a

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on the southwest face of

Bacon Peak Bacon Peak is a mountain located in North Cascades National Park, in the Cascade range in the U.S. state of Washington. Its glaciers cover ; the three main glaciers are Diobsud Creek Glacier (southeast, wide), Green Lake Glacier (northeast, ...

, flows into a small tarn, then flows over the

Berdeen Falls Berdeen Falls is a series of three waterfalls located in Whatcom County, Washington. The falls are on a stretch of Bacon Creek (a tributary of the Skagit River The Skagit River ( ) is a river in southwestern British Columbia in Canada and nor ...

. At the base of the waterfall, the creek turns southeast and joins the Skagit River near and discharges into the

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near

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.Waterfalls NW retrieved 6th Dec 2009
/ref> Bacon Creek was named for prospector Albert Bacon, who arrived in the area around 1879.

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