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Buttermilk Falls

Buttermilk Falls, seen from above at true elevation

Buttermilk Falls is a waterfall in New York, at a modelled elevation of 616 m. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the west, 8.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Wildcat Falls, a waterfall 0.5 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 23 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Height
23 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.17543, -74.07166

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Nature reserves
Parks
  • Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 3.3 mi
  • Mountain Top Arboretum: 4.4 mi
  • Cantine Fields: 8.4 mi
  • Cantine Complex: 8.6 mi
  • Cantine Memorial Field: 8.7 mi
Waterfalls: 56
Historic sites: 52
  • Layman's Monument: 1.0 mi
  • Tory Fort: 1.0 mi
  • cistern: 1.5 mi
  • stone house: 1.5 mi
  • Catskill Mountain House: 2.3 mi
Museums: 36
Artworks: 18
Beaches: 17
  • Saugerties Beach: 9.5 mi
  • West Landing: 11.7 mi
  • South Landing: 11.7 mi
  • Ulster Landing Beach: 13.5 mi
  • Oakdale Beach: 15.9 mi
Cliffs: 16
  • Hurricane Ledge: 1.1 mi
  • Devils Kitchen: 3.1 mi
  • Hawks Rocks: 3.5 mi
  • The "Great" Cliffs: 3.8 mi
  • Ministers Face: 6.5 mi
Gardens: 12
  • The Upper Garden: 10.0 mi
  • The Walled Garden: 10.0 mi
  • Blithewood Garden: 13.3 mi
  • The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 13.5 mi
  • Bard Community Garden: 13.6 mi
Attractions: 6
  • The Old Game Farm: 5.4 mi
  • Rail Explorers: 13.8 mi
  • World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 14.1 mi
  • Hudson River Cruises: 18.4 mi
  • Pratt Rock: 20.2 mi
Springs: 6
  • Devil's Acre spring: 8.2 mi
  • Elm Ridge piped spring: 10.3 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 20.5 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 20.6 mi
  • Keyhole Spring: 21.4 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Lighthouses: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.8 miles of Buttermilk Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Hunter MountainW 271°1,228.34 m8.1 mi
Black DomeNNW 338°1,217.37 m7.0 mi
Thomas Cole MountainNNW 334°1,204.87 m7.3 mi
BlackheadNNW 345°1,200.91 m6.6 mi
West Kill MountainW 267°1,186 m11.2 mi
Plateau MountainWSW 244°1,168.91 m5.9 mi
Sugarloaf MountainSW 233°1,160 m5.0 mi
Southwest Hunter MountainW 264°1,140 m8.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3219:09
June solstice05:2119:5420:37
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:2215:4316:28

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222431435463686660483828
Precip in4.94.05.75.24.86.05.56.36.37.04.97.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Platte Clove, 3 mi away.

Streamflow

Months at or above the year’s average flow: Nov–Jan, Mar–May — fullest in Apr, leanest in Jun.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs5.23.86.39.76.32.33.03.82.44.25.27.5

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Myrtle Brook AT State Hwy 214 AT Edgewood NY, 9 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/2910217014

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