Taughannock Falls State Park
Taughannock Falls State Park is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 245 m. Connecticut Hill stands 638 m to the south-southwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Taughannock Falls, a waterfall 0.5 miles away. Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway passes 0.6 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
How to reach it
- 0.6 mi off the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway
- 8.8 mi off the Scenic Route 90
Overlooks nearby
- Taughannock Falls Overlook · 1 mi
- Fuertes Swan Pond Overlook · 8 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Jacksonville Community Park: 2.0 mi
- Myers Park: 3.7 mi
- Hector Land Use Area US Forest Service: 7.0 mi
- East Shore Park: 7.5 mi
- Allan H. Treman State Marine Park: 7.5 mi
- Bean Hill: 7.2 mi
- Lobdell Hill: 7.8 mi
- North Hill: 8.6 mi
- Butcher Hill: 8.8 mi
- Comstock Knoll: 9.6 mi
- Sims-Jennings Preserve at Cayuga Cliffs: 3.2 mi
- Cayuga Shores Wildlife Management Area: 5.5 mi
- Stevenson Forest Preserve: 8.9 mi
- Bock-Harvey Forest Preserve: 9.2 mi
- Cascadilla Gorge: 9.4 mi
- Taughannock Falls: 0.5 mi
- Frontenac Falls: 1.3 mi
- Ludlowville Falls: 4.3 mi
- Pocket Falls: 5.3 mi
- Emilie Jonas Falls: 6.1 mi
- Tree Service: 1.7 mi
- Fire hydrant: 2.0 mi
- Steel Deck Bridge: 2.4 mi
- Rt 96 Self Storage: 3.7 mi
- Remembrance Farm: 4.0 mi
- Ulysses Historical Society: 2.0 mi
- Cayuga Nature Center: 3.4 mi
- Field School House: 5.9 mi
- Museum of the Earth: 6.5 mi
- Interlaken Historical Society Farmers Museum: 7.7 mi
- Ithaca Children's Garden: 8.3 mi
- Alpha Phi Alpha memorial garden: 9.3 mi
- Farrand Garden: 9.4 mi
- Rockwell Azalea Garden: 9.4 mi
- Bird Feeding Garden: 9.5 mi
- Peter Wheeler historic marker: 4.3 mi
- Bob Baker BBQ Pavilion: 5.9 mi
- Monument of Ezra Cornell: 9.2 mi
- Andrew Dickson White Statue: 9.2 mi
- 1939 World's Fair Flagpole: 22.3 mi
- Pinnacle Rock: 10.3 mi
- Castle Point: 15.3 mi
- Glen Cathedral: 17.5 mi
- Point O'Rocks: 18.7 mi
- Black Lives Matter: 9.0 mi
- Cornplanter: 23.9 mi
- Der deutsche Strand: 9.9 mi
- Glenwood Beach: 19.6 mi
- Tamarack Spring: 18.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.5 miles of Taughannock Falls State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut Hill | SSW 194° | 638 m | 10.8 mi |
| Star Stanton Hill | ESE 111° | 612 m | 18.1 mi |
| Irish Hill | S 186° | 599 m | 18.4 mi |
| Hammond Hill | ESE 113° | 598 m | 18.0 mi |
| Doll Hill | S 186° | 596 m | 13.6 mi |
| Buck Hill | SSW 198° | 594 m | 10.0 mi |
| Beam Hill | ESE 108° | 594 m | 17.0 mi |
| Rogers Hill | SSW 214° | 586 m | 12.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:42 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:30 | 20:05 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 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 | 22 | 24 | 30 | 43 | 55 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 60 | 48 | 38 | 28 |
| Precip in | 2.3 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mecklenburg 4SW, 10 mi away.
- purple-flowered raspberry166 obs
- red-berried elder97 obs
- Spongy Moth87 obs
- red trillium84 obs
- Turkey Vulture83 obs
- wineberry82 obs
- American Toad77 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee63 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/434953089
Day trips start here
- Trumansburg · 2 mi
- Eastern Finger Lakes · 7 mi
- Ithaca · 9 mi
- Watkins Glen · 17 mi
- Cortland · 23 mi
- Auburn · 27 mi
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