Upper Bear Creek is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a share of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Upper Bear Creek CDP was 1,059 at the United States Census 2010. The Evergreen name office (Zip Code 80439) serves the area.

The Upper Bear Creek Place is rich in history – Troutdale in the Pines, a posh resort hotel, catered to Hollywood movie stars and America’s elite in the 1920s and served as a vacation spot for Denverites escaping the summer heat. Other summer resorts sprang stirring in the Place as well, including the Greystone Guest Ranch and the Brookforest Inn. In more recent history, Willie Nelson, Lee Majors, Farrah Fawcett, and others have lived along Upper Bear Creek.

Additionally, the Mt. Evans Outdoor Lab School, a campus of the Jefferson County Public Schools, is located in the Upper Bear Creek area. Many Jeffco 6th graders will spend a week at Mt. Evans, or the further outdoor lab school, Windy Peak, where they stay in cabins or dorms and examination various aspects of the outdoors, including forestry, astronomy, ecology, and investor history, among others.

Generally regarded as the most exclusive and desirable area within Evergreen, Upper Bear Creek features outstanding trout fishing (for homeowners and guests), peaceful feel-good factor and meadows, and in many bad skin views of Mt. Evans. The population as of the 2010 Census was 1,059.