Maple Falls is a census-designated place (CDP) in Whatcom County, Washington, United States.

[3] Maple Falls is located on the Mount Baker Highway, east of Bellingham, three miles east of a junction at Kendall, with State Route 547, which connects over a low pass on the northeast flank of Sumas Mountain to Sumas and the border crossing with Abbotsford, British Columbia.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.0 square miles (7.8 km2), all of it land.

[4] Among the first settlers of Maple Falls was Herbert Everant Leavitt, a native of Melbourne, Quebec, Canada.

[5] After leaving Canada, Leavitt spent time in Truckee, California, where he worked as a carpenter before setting out for Columbia Township in Washington state.