Lower Bridal Veil Falls
Lower Bridal Veil Falls is a waterfall in New York, at a modelled elevation of 465 m. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the west-northwest, 8.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Bridal Veil Falls, a waterfall less than a tenth of a mile away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 20 miles off.
The story
Waterfall in Greene County, New York, United States.
Wikidata Q96373946, matched on coordinates and name (59 m apart).
What the record says
- Height
- 12 m
How to reach it
- 19.6 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- White Dot · 21 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 25 mi
- Pinnacle Rock · 26 mi
- Hayes Lookout · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Platte Clove Preserve: 0.2 mi
- Overlook Turnpike Primitive Bicycle Corridor: 1.2 mi
- Roundtop Mountain Unit: 3.5 mi
- Twilight Park Unit: 4.1 mi
- Sloan Gorge Preserve: 4.1 mi
- Plattekill Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Indian Head Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Kaaterskill High Peak: 2.1 mi
- Twin Mountain South Summit: 2.3 mi
- Twin Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 4.9 mi
- Andy Lee Field: 6.2 mi
- Woodstock Waterfall Park: 6.6 mi
- Mountain Top Arboretum: 6.6 mi
- The Comeau Property: 6.8 mi
- Bridal Veil Falls: 0.0 mi
- Upper Ghost (Japanese) Falls: 0.0 mi
- Lower Ghost (Japanese) Falls: 0.1 mi
- Hells Hole Falls: 0.1 mi
- Plattekill Falls: 0.1 mi
- Boarding House: 0.2 mi
- Tory Fort: 2.5 mi
- Layman's Monument: 4.1 mi
- cistern: 4.4 mi
- stone house: 4.6 mi
- Mountain Top Historical Society: 4.4 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 6.5 mi
- Kiersted House: 7.8 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 8.9 mi
- Center For Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art: 11.6 mi
- Devils Kitchen: 0.0 mi
- The "Great" Cliffs: 1.0 mi
- Hawks Rocks: 1.2 mi
- Hurricane Ledge: 2.1 mi
- Ministers Face: 3.4 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 7.9 mi
- West Landing: 10.0 mi
- South Landing: 10.0 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 11.3 mi
- Kingston Point Beach: 15.2 mi
- The Great Knot: 4.8 mi
- Opus 40: 6.1 mi
- The Query Family: 6.1 mi
- Flame: 6.1 mi
- Tomorrow: 6.2 mi
- The Walled Garden: 9.0 mi
- The Upper Garden: 9.0 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 11.4 mi
- Rough Garden: 11.7 mi
- The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 11.7 mi
- The Old Game Farm: 8.4 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 11.9 mi
- Rail Explorers: 12.0 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 15.6 mi
- Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses: 20.2 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 7.9 mi
- Elm Ridge piped spring: 12.8 mi
- Bear Wallow: 17.7 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 18.6 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 20.4 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 6.4 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 9.7 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 8.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.4 miles of Lower Bridal Veil Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter Mountain | WNW 293° | 1,228 m | 8.2 mi |
| Black Dome | NNW 348° | 1,217 m | 9.8 mi |
| Thomas Cole Mountain | NNW 345° | 1,205 m | 10.0 mi |
| Blackhead | N 353° | 1,201 m | 9.5 mi |
| West Kill Mountain | WNW 283° | 1,186 m | 10.9 mi |
| Plateau Mountain | W 276° | 1,169 m | 4.7 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | W 270° | 1,160 m | 3.4 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | WNW 285° | 1,140 m | 8.5 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 | 18:19 | 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, under a mile 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, 8 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/8313180036
Day trips start here
- Kinderhook · 28 mi
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