Kaaterskill Falls
Kaaterskill Falls is a waterfall in New York, at a modelled elevation of 545 m. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the west, 8.6 miles off. The nearest named place is stone house, a historic site 0.3 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 24 miles off.
The story
Waterfall located in the eastern Catskill Mountains of New York.
Wikidata Q38743, matched on coordinates and name (85 m apart).
What the record says
- Height
- 20 m
How to reach it
- 23.9 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- White Dot · 25 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 30 mi
- Pinnacle Rock · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- South Mountain: 0.8 mi
- North Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Stoppel Point: 2.2 mi
- Kaaterskill High Peak: 2.3 mi
- Roundtop Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Twilight Park Unit: 2.3 mi
- Roundtop Mountain Unit: 3.0 mi
- Platte Clove Road Unit: 4.3 mi
- Platte Clove Preserve: 4.4 mi
- Overlook Turnpike Primitive Bicycle Corridor: 5.6 mi
- Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 3.6 mi
- Mountain Top Arboretum: 3.9 mi
- Angelo Canna Town Park: 7.9 mi
- C.D. Lane Park: 8.4 mi
- Cantine Fields: 9.0 mi
- Bastion Falls: 0.4 mi
- Lower Buttermilk Falls: 0.8 mi
- Delmura Falls: 1.0 mi
- Fawn's Leap: 1.2 mi
- Santa Cruz Falls: 1.2 mi
- stone house: 0.3 mi
- Layman's Monument: 0.4 mi
- cistern: 0.7 mi
- Catskill Mountain House: 1.5 mi
- Otis Railroad Trestle: 1.9 mi
- Mountain Top Historical Society: 1.5 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 8.0 mi
- Kiersted House: 9.8 mi
- Thomas Cole National Historic Site: 10.6 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 10.9 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 8.6 mi
- The Great Knot: 8.7 mi
- Pulelehua: 9.9 mi
- Love is in the Air: 9.9 mi
- The Query Family: 9.9 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 10.2 mi
- West Landing: 12.4 mi
- South Landing: 12.5 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 14.4 mi
- Oakdale Beach: 15.1 mi
- Hurricane Ledge: 2.4 mi
- Devils Kitchen: 4.4 mi
- Hawks Rocks: 4.7 mi
- The "Great" Cliffs: 5.1 mi
- Devils Tombstone: 7.7 mi
- The Upper Garden: 10.5 mi
- The Walled Garden: 10.5 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 14.1 mi
- The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 14.3 mi
- Bard Community Garden: 14.4 mi
- The Old Game Farm: 4.2 mi
- Rail Explorers: 14.8 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 15.2 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 19.5 mi
- Pratt Rock: 20.1 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 8.8 mi
- Elm Ridge piped spring: 9.5 mi
- Bear Wallow: 21.8 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 22.7 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 23.9 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 7.5 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 9.1 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 10.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.2 miles of Kaaterskill Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter Mountain | W 263° | 1,228 m | 8.6 mi |
| Black Dome | NNW 331° | 1,217 m | 6.1 mi |
| Thomas Cole Mountain | NW 325° | 1,205 m | 6.5 mi |
| Blackhead | NNW 338° | 1,201 m | 5.5 mi |
| West Kill Mountain | W 261° | 1,186 m | 11.7 mi |
| Plateau Mountain | SW 236° | 1,169 m | 6.8 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | SW 226° | 1,160 m | 6.2 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | WSW 257° | 1,140 m | 9.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:32 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 19:54 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 15:43 | 16:28 |
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 | 31 | 43 | 54 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 60 | 48 | 38 | 28 |
| Precip in | 4.9 | 4.0 | 5.7 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 6.3 | 6.3 | 7.0 | 4.9 | 7.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Platte Clove, 4 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Nov–Jan, Mar–May — fullest in Apr, leanest in Jun.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 5.2 | 3.8 | 6.3 | 9.7 | 6.3 | 2.3 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 4.2 | 5.2 | 7.5 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Myrtle Brook AT State Hwy 214 AT Edgewood NY, 10 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/2529994216
Day trips start here
- Kinderhook · 25 mi
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