Bridesmaid Falls
Bridesmaid Falls is a waterfall in New Hampshire, at a modelled elevation of 584 m. Mount Lafayette stands 1,600 m to the east, 3.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Bridalveil Falls, a waterfall 0.8 miles away. White Mountain Trail passes 1.6 miles off.
What the record says
- Height
- 6 m
How to reach it
- 1.6 mi off the White Mountain Trail, National
- 11.2 mi off the Connecticut River Byway, National
- 7.4 mi off the Presidential Range Tour
- 8.9 mi off the Kancamagus Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Profiler Plaza · 2 mi
- Pemigewasset Overlook · 15 mi
- CL Graham Wangan Overlook · 15 mi
- Willey Brook Bridge Overlook · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mittersill Peak: 0.9 mi
- Bald Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Cannon Mountain: 1.6 mi
- The Cannon Balls East: 1.6 mi
- The Cannonballs West: 1.7 mi
- Artists Bluff: 1.5 mi
- Square Inch Wall: 1.7 mi
- Maggot Buttress: 1.7 mi
- Hermit Haven: 1.7 mi
- Hone Wall: 1.7 mi
- Wells Road Property: 1.7 mi
- Grote Wildlife Sanctuary: 1.9 mi
- Franconia Town Forest: 2.7 mi
- Lawrence Family Forest: 3.0 mi
- Lafayette Brook Scenic Area: 3.3 mi
- Franconia Notch State Park: 1.3 mi
- The Frost Place: 3.3 mi
- Fox Hill Park: 3.6 mi
- Dow Park: 3.9 mi
- Coffin Pond Conservation Area: 5.2 mi
- Bridalveil Falls: 0.8 mi
- Kinsman Flume: 2.0 mi
- Stairs Falls: 3.4 mi
- Swiftwater Falls: 3.4 mi
- Cloudland Falls: 3.6 mi
- Boise Rock: 2.5 mi
- The Basin: 4.0 mi
- Liberty Gorge: 5.2 mi
- Table Rock Flume Brook: 5.5 mi
- Flume Gorge & Visitor Center: 5.6 mi
- New England Ski Museum: 1.6 mi
- Old Man of the Mountain Museum: 2.0 mi
- Robert Frost Museum: 3.3 mi
- Franconia Heritage Museum: 3.8 mi
- Stone Iron Furnace Museum: 4.4 mi
- Governor Gallen Memorial: 2.0 mi
- Caddy Camp Alumni Memorial: 8.3 mi
- Chase cellar hole: 11.5 mi
- Bath New Hampshire: 12.1 mi
- Rogers Rangers: 15.7 mi
- Mount Cleveland Picnic Area: 5.8 mi
- Beaver Brook Recreation Area: 7.4 mi
- Fay Waside Picnic Area: 9.1 mi
- Zealand Picnic Area: 12.8 mi
- Moore Dam Picnic Area: 13.5 mi
- Boise Rock: 2.5 mi
- The Basin, West: 3.9 mi
- The Basin, East: 4.1 mi
- Littleton Rest Area: 13.1 mi
- Vermont Welcome Center: 15.7 mi
- Liberty Spring: 5.3 mi
- Lac Littleton: 12.1 mi
- Gulfside Spring: 22.4 mi
- Spaulding Spring: 22.5 mi
- Peabody Spring: 23.2 mi
- Tree Harp: 9.6 mi
- Sunflowers: 9.7 mi
- Pollyanna Statue: 9.7 mi
- Mary Bierbrier Community Garden: 19.0 mi
- Lancaster Community Garden: 23.0 mi
- Echo Lake Beach: 1.4 mi
- Livermore: 18.4 mi
- Mount Orne Covered Bridge: 20.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.9 miles of Bridesmaid Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Lafayette | E 101° | 1,600 m | 3.9 mi |
| Mount Lincoln | ESE 112° | 1,551 m | 4.2 mi |
| North Lincoln | ESE 107° | 1,524 m | 4.1 mi |
| North Lafayette | E 95° | 1,519 m | 3.8 mi |
| South Twin Mountain | E 82° | 1,491 m | 8.4 mi |
| North Twin Mountain | ENE 75° | 1,452 m | 8.4 mi |
| Little Haystack Mountain | ESE 120° | 1,440 m | 4.4 mi |
| West Bond | E 97° | 1,358 m | 8.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:51 | 18:21 | 18:59 |
| June solstice | 05:04 | 19:50 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:35 | 18:08 | 18:46 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 15:24 | 16:12 |
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 | 18 | 20 | 29 | 42 | 54 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 59 | 47 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 5.2 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 6.0 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 5.4 | 4.7 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lincoln Nepp, 9 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Apr–May, Nov — fullest in Apr, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 134 | 109 | 198 | 524 | 491 | 206 | 121 | 104 | 101 | 175 | 222 | 195 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Ammonoosuc River AT Bethlehem Junction, NH, 8 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/4094549265
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