Cedar Falls
Cedar Falls is a waterfall in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 118 m. Cane Creek Mountains stands 301 m to the west, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Nunn Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away. Football Road passes 4.5 miles off. 37 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Height
- 1.5 m
- Width
- 4 m
How to reach it
- 4.5 mi off the Football Road
- 5.1 mi off the Scots-Welsh Heritage Byway
- 5.2 mi off the Colonial Heritage Byway
- 13.6 mi off the North Durham Country Byway
Overlooks nearby
- #44 Racecar · 9 mi
- #12 Racecar · 9 mi
- Historic Grandstand · 9 mi
- Trading Path View · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Plaid Cow: 1.5 mi
- Tatanka: 2.0 mi
- Bolin Creek Trail: 2.6 mi
- Exhale: 3.2 mi
- The Hooded Witch: 5.9 mi
- North Forest Hills Park: 0.9 mi
- Homestead Park: 1.4 mi
- Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery: 1.5 mi
- Pritchard Park: 1.5 mi
- Ephesus Park: 1.9 mi
- Old Well: 3.1 mi
- Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower: 3.3 mi
- Bennett Place: 6.1 mi
- 11-foot-8 Bridge: 7.6 mi
- Duke Homestead: 8.4 mi
- Hollow Rock Preserve: 2.7 mi
- Orange County Parks Operations Base: 2.9 mi
- Adams Tract: 3.1 mi
- William L. Hunt Arboretum: 4.4 mi
- Laurel Hill Nature Preserve: 4.5 mi
- Nunn Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Iron Mine Hill: 2.6 mi
- Piney Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Blackwood Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Stony Hill: 3.9 mi
- Old Powerline Mill: 2.8 mi
- Hippol Castle: 3.0 mi
- Kemp Plummer Battle Bench: 3.0 mi
- Unsung Founders Memorial: 3.0 mi
- Joseph Caldwell Monument: 3.0 mi
- HOPE Gardens: 1.9 mi
- Coker Arboretum: 3.0 mi
- Alumni Sculpture Garden: 3.1 mi
- Winmore Community Garden: 3.2 mi
- Carrboro Community Garden: 3.3 mi
- Morehead Planetarium: 3.0 mi
- Ackland Art Museum: 3.1 mi
- Carolina Basketball Museum: 3.8 mi
- Nasher Museum of Art: 6.7 mi
- The History Hub Museum: 7.9 mi
- Bobbit's Hole: 7.1 mi
- Parker's Creek Beach: 14.6 mi
- Crosswinds Beach: 14.7 mi
- White Oak Beach: 14.8 mi
- Seaforth Beach: 15.8 mi
- Large Picnic Shelter at Southern Community Park: 5.7 mi
- Small Picnic Shelter at Southern Community Park: 5.7 mi
- White Oak Recreation Area: 15.0 mi
- Youth camp tables, fire pit, wood storage: 16.7 mi
- Lake Johnson Shelter 4: 22.4 mi
- Hollow Rock: 2.4 mi
- Kodak Rock: 6.9 mi
- Coon rock, Jumping rock: 9.1 mi
- Ye Olde Valley Spring: 8.0 mi
- Moosejaw Falls: 16.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Cedar Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cane Creek Mountains | W 269° | 301 m | 22.4 mi |
| Bass Mountain | W 268° | 275 m | 20.2 mi |
| Occoneechee Mountain | NNW 327° | 261 m | 8.8 mi |
| Glenns Mountain | NNE 19° | 244 m | 22.4 mi |
| Red Mountain | NNE 19° | 243 m | 20.8 mi |
| Pickards Mountain | W 275° | 237 m | 7.0 mi |
| Brown Elfin Knob | NNW 330° | 234 m | 8.7 mi |
| Bald Mountain | WNW 288° | 232 m | 4.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:21 | 18:54 | 19:28 |
| June solstice | 06:01 | 19:59 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:41 | 19:15 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:27 | 17:06 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 44 | 51 | 60 | 68 | 76 | 80 | 78 | 72 | 61 | 51 | 44 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chapel Hill Williams AP, 2 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–Apr — fullest in Feb, leanest in Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 10.1 | 11.7 | 10.4 | 10.9 | 8.1 | 6.3 | 8.2 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 4.7 | 5.7 | 11.3 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Bolin Creek AT Village Drive AT Chapel Hill, NC, 3 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/5494632705
Day trips start here
- Chapel Hill · 2 mi
- Research Triangle · 15 mi
- Raleigh · 24 mi
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