Frontenac Falls
Frontenac Falls is a waterfall in New York, at a modelled elevation of 153 m. Connecticut Hill stands 638 m to the south, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Taughannock Falls State Park, a nature reserve 1.3 miles away. Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway runs past it.
What the record says
- Height
- 29 m
How to reach it
- On the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway
- 7.6 mi off the Scenic Route 90
Overlooks nearby
- Taughannock Falls Overlook · 2 mi
- Fuertes Swan Pond Overlook · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Jacksonville Community Park: 3.2 mi
- Myers Park: 4.5 mi
- Hector Land Use Area US Forest Service: 6.0 mi
- East Shore Park: 8.7 mi
- Allan H. Treman State Marine Park: 8.8 mi
- Lobdell Hill: 7.9 mi
- Butcher Hill: 8.0 mi
- Bean Hill: 8.1 mi
- North Hill: 8.5 mi
- Burnt Hill: 10.1 mi
- Taughannock Falls State Park: 1.3 mi
- Sims-Jennings Preserve at Cayuga Cliffs: 3.5 mi
- Cayuga Shores Wildlife Management Area: 4.3 mi
- Stevenson Forest Preserve: 10.0 mi
- Bock-Harvey Forest Preserve: 10.4 mi
- Taughannock Falls: 1.7 mi
- Ludlowville Falls: 4.8 mi
- Pocket Falls: 6.3 mi
- Emilie Jonas Falls: 7.1 mi
- Oak Tree Falls: 9.8 mi
- Ulysses Historical Society: 1.8 mi
- Cayuga Nature Center: 4.6 mi
- Interlaken Historical Society Farmers Museum: 6.4 mi
- Interlaken Historical Society Community Life Museum: 6.4 mi
- Field School House: 6.7 mi
- Fire hydrant: 2.6 mi
- Tree Service: 2.6 mi
- Steel Deck Bridge: 2.7 mi
- Remembrance Farm: 3.5 mi
- Rt 96 Self Storage: 5.0 mi
- Ithaca Children's Garden: 9.6 mi
- Bird Feeding Garden: 10.6 mi
- Alpha Phi Alpha memorial garden: 10.6 mi
- Farrand Garden: 10.7 mi
- Rockwell Azalea Garden: 10.7 mi
- Pinnacle Rock: 11.6 mi
- Castle Point: 14.5 mi
- Glen Cathedral: 17.8 mi
- Point O'Rocks: 20.1 mi
- Hi Banks: 24.2 mi
- Peter Wheeler historic marker: 4.8 mi
- Bob Baker BBQ Pavilion: 6.7 mi
- Monument of Ezra Cornell: 10.5 mi
- 1939 World's Fair Flagpole: 22.8 mi
- Black Lives Matter: 10.3 mi
- Cornplanter: 22.8 mi
- Der deutsche Strand: 11.2 mi
- Glenwood Beach: 18.7 mi
- Tamarack Spring: 19.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.4 miles of Frontenac Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut Hill | S 189° | 638 m | 11.8 mi |
| Star Stanton Hill | ESE 113° | 612 m | 19.2 mi |
| Irish Hill | S 184° | 599 m | 19.5 mi |
| Hammond Hill | ESE 116° | 598 m | 19.1 mi |
| Doll Hill | S 182° | 596 m | 14.7 mi |
| Buck Hill | SSW 193° | 594 m | 10.9 mi |
| Beam Hill | ESE 111° | 594 m | 18.1 mi |
| Rogers Hill | SSW 208° | 586 m | 13.5 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 | 06:55 | 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.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–Apr — fullest in Mar, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 155 | 165 | 224 | 191 | 107 | 74.1 | 56.0 | 47.8 | 31.3 | 84.3 | 103 | 177 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Salmon Creek Near Ludlowville NY, 5 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/8004536386
Day trips start here
- Trumansburg · 2 mi
- Eastern Finger Lakes · 6 mi
- Ithaca · 10 mi
- Watkins Glen · 17 mi
- Cortland · 23 mi
- Finger Lakes · 25 mi
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