Buttermilk Falls
Buttermilk Falls is a waterfall in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 489 m. Big Pine Hill stands 690 m to the northeast, 7.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Pocono Spring, a spring 3.1 miles away. Governor Casey Byway passes 19 miles off.
What the record says
- Height
- 18.28 m
How to reach it
- 19.0 mi off the Governor Casey Byway
- 27.5 mi off the Gateway to the Endless Mountains
- 28.0 mi off the Viaduct Valley Way Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Scenic Overlook (Carbondale) · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Wilkes-Barre Township War Memorial: 7.7 mi
- Joe Palooka Monument: 7.9 mi
- Forty Fort Marker: 10.3 mi
- Wyoming Monument: 11.0 mi
- Denison House: 11.1 mi
- Monument Park: 3.4 mi
- Trailwood Park: 3.5 mi
- Bear Creek Recreation Park: 3.8 mi
- Mountain Park: 6.6 mi
- Fairview Memorial Park: 6.9 mi
- Wyoming Mountain: 4.0 mi
- Dry Land Hill: 4.7 mi
- Bald Mountain: 4.9 mi
- Arbutus Peak: 6.0 mi
- Stone Tower: 6.3 mi
- Goeringer Preserve: 3.3 mi
- Harry and Mary Goeringer Preserve: 3.9 mi
- Bald Mountain Preserve: 5.6 mi
- State Game Lands Number 40: 7.2 mi
- Thomas Darling Preserve: 8.9 mi
- Luzerne County Museum: 9.3 mi
- Eckley Miner's Village Museum: 13.3 mi
- Gouldsboro Train Station: 16.0 mi
- MARINE CORPS LEAGUE: 16.1 mi
- Tobyhanna Train Station: 16.9 mi
- Salvatore Falls: 6.3 mi
- Choke Creek Falls: 6.5 mi
- Great Falls of the Lehigh: 6.5 mi
- Tobyhanna Falls: 9.8 mi
- Rattlesnake Falls: 11.7 mi
- Hyperview: 9.2 mi
- Toni the Tomato Mule: 11.0 mi
- The Famous Tomato Statue: 11.1 mi
- Jacob and the Angel Sculpture: 17.0 mi
- 'The Office' Mural: 17.1 mi
- The Big Cow: 8.1 mi
- The Mary Stegmaier Mansion: 9.2 mi
- Split Rock: 9.5 mi
- Whitewater Challengers: 12.9 mi
- Iceberg Alley Luge: 13.3 mi
- Freedom Garden: 16.9 mi
- Butler Township Community Garden: 16.9 mi
- R. N, Davis Memorial Garden: 17.0 mi
- Upper Quad: 17.1 mi
- Lower Quad: 17.1 mi
- Tall Timber Beach: 14.5 mi
- Gouldsboro State Park Beach: 15.4 mi
- Indain Mountain Lake Beach: 16.7 mi
- Tobyhanna Lake Beach: 18.0 mi
- Glen Onoko Lehigh River Access: 19.7 mi
- Devil's Elbow: 5.2 mi
- Campbell's Ledge: 13.6 mi
- The View (Abderdeen Road Overlook): 17.9 mi
- Gorgeous Rocks: 19.5 mi
- Bear Mountain Overlook: 20.8 mi
- Pocono Spring: 3.1 mi
- Sand Spring: 6.9 mi
- Octave Spring: 13.2 mi
- Bill Warner Spring: 13.3 mi
- Penn Springs: 15.4 mi
- Manny Gordon Recreation Area: 7.4 mi
- Camp Apple Tree: 22.0 mi
- Willow picnic grove: 24.4 mi
- Horeshoe picnic grove: 24.4 mi
- Luzerne County Rest Area Eastbound: 8.8 mi
- Luzerne County Rest Area Northbound: 12.2 mi
- Blue Ridge Travel Plaza: 13.2 mi
- Crescent Lake Rest Area: 21.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.5 miles of Buttermilk Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Pine Hill | NE 49° | 690 m | 7.3 mi |
| Pinnacle Rock | N 358° | 685 m | 18.1 mi |
| Dresser Hill | E 79° | 673 m | 20.2 mi |
| Pimple Hill | SE 128° | 669 m | 15.5 mi |
| Lake Mountain | SE 140° | 666 m | 11.1 mi |
| Big Shiney Mountain | NNE 30° | 664 m | 8.3 mi |
| Panther Hill | NE 47° | 662 m | 9.3 mi |
| West Mountain | N 6° | 659 m | 20.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:39 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:31 | 19:58 | 20:40 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:26 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:26 | 15:54 | 16:38 |
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 | 24 | 26 | 33 | 45 | 56 | 64 | 68 | 67 | 60 | 49 | 38 | 29 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Francis E Walter DAM, 3 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–Jan, Mar–May — fullest in Apr, leanest in Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 704 | 633 | 938 | 1,033 | 761 | 551 | 399 | 357 | 437 | 542 | 642 | 781 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Lehigh R bl Francis E Walter Res nr White Haven PA, 4 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/4527178095
Day trips start here
- Wilkes-Barre · 9 mi
- Northeastern Pennsylvania · 13 mi
- Scranton · 17 mi
- Dunmore · 18 mi
- Sterling · 20 mi
- Clarks Summit · 23 mi
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