Buttermilk Falls State Park
Buttermilk Falls State Park is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 302 m. Connecticut Hill stands 638 m to the west, 7.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Pinnacle Rock, a cliff 0.3 miles away. Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway passes 2.3 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
How to reach it
- 2.3 mi off the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway
- 16.8 mi off the Scenic Route 90
Overlooks nearby
- Fuertes Swan Pond Overlook · 4 mi
- Taughannock Falls Overlook · 10 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Jim Butterfield Stadium: 1.2 mi
- Negundo Woods: 1.3 mi
- Freeman Field: 1.3 mi
- Wood Street Park: 1.9 mi
- Baker Park: 1.9 mi
- Jersey Hill: 2.7 mi
- Bruce Hill: 3.2 mi
- Comstock Knoll: 3.8 mi
- Hungerford Hill: 3.9 mi
- Steventown Hill: 4.9 mi
- South Hill Natural Area West: 1.1 mi
- Cascadilla Gorge: 3.0 mi
- East Ithaca Nature Preserve: 3.3 mi
- Pine Tree Wildlife Preserve: 3.4 mi
- Reynolds Game Farm: 4.4 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 0.7 mi
- Lower Falls: 2.3 mi
- Potter's Falls: 3.0 mi
- Lucifer Falls: 3.4 mi
- Ithaca Falls: 3.5 mi
- The Overlook At West Hill (housing for the elderly): 4.3 mi
- Incodema: 4.9 mi
- Turn here for fresh eggs farm stand: 5.6 mi
- Stick And Stone Farm and CSA: 6.3 mi
- Rt 96 Self Storage: 6.8 mi
- Tompkins Center for History & Culture: 2.6 mi
- Sciencenter: 3.1 mi
- Museum of the Earth: 4.3 mi
- Cayuga Nature Center: 8.0 mi
- Field School House: 9.1 mi
- Ithaca Children's Garden: 2.8 mi
- Alpha Phi Alpha memorial garden: 3.3 mi
- Farrand Garden: 3.5 mi
- Rockwell Azalea Garden: 3.5 mi
- Minn's Garden: 3.6 mi
- Monument of Ezra Cornell: 3.4 mi
- Andrew Dickson White Statue: 3.5 mi
- Bob Baker BBQ Pavilion: 9.2 mi
- Peter Wheeler historic marker: 10.3 mi
- Birthplace of John D Rockefeller: 17.9 mi
- Pinnacle Rock: 0.3 mi
- Point O'Rocks: 8.5 mi
- Glen Cathedral: 18.6 mi
- Castle Point: 23.5 mi
- Devils Elbow: 24.6 mi
- Der deutsche Strand: 1.0 mi
- Black Lives Matter: 2.4 mi
- Tamarack Spring: 7.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.7 miles of Buttermilk Falls State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut Hill | W 260° | 638 m | 7.8 mi |
| Star Stanton Hill | ENE 77° | 612 m | 12.1 mi |
| Irish Hill | SW 217° | 599 m | 11.6 mi |
| Hammond Hill | E 80° | 598 m | 11.6 mi |
| Doll Hill | SW 236° | 596 m | 7.8 mi |
| Buck Hill | W 267° | 594 m | 8.3 mi |
| Beam Hill | ENE 71° | 594 m | 11.6 mi |
| Rogers Hill | W 263° | 586 m | 12.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:41 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:30 | 20:05 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:28 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 15:51 | 16:37 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 23 | 24 | 31 | 44 | 56 | 65 | 69 | 67 | 60 | 49 | 39 | 29 |
| Precip in | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ithaca Cornell Univ, 5 mi away.
- large white trillium141 obs
- sharp-lobed hepatica118 obs
- Common Garter Snake113 obs
- White-tailed Deer111 obs
- maidenhair spleenwort103 obs
- Christmas fern98 obs
- Spongy Moth97 obs
- mayapple97 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/434954566
Day trips start here
- Ithaca · 3 mi
- Trumansburg · 12 mi
- Eastern Finger Lakes · 18 mi
- Watkins Glen · 18 mi
- Cortland · 22 mi
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