Lower Buttermilk Falls
Lower Buttermilk Falls is a waterfall in New York, at a modelled elevation of 321 m. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the west, 8.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Layman's Monument, a historic site 0.5 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 23 miles off.
What the record says
- Height
- 11 m
How to reach it
- 23.1 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- White Dot · 24 mi
- High Falls · 25 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 29 mi
- Pinnacle Rock · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- South Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Kaaterskill High Peak: 1.5 mi
- Roundtop Mountain: 1.7 mi
- North Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Stoppel Point: 3.0 mi
- Twilight Park Unit: 2.1 mi
- Roundtop Mountain Unit: 2.6 mi
- Platte Clove Preserve: 3.5 mi
- Platte Clove Road Unit: 3.9 mi
- Overlook Turnpike Primitive Bicycle Corridor: 4.7 mi
- Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 3.4 mi
- Mountain Top Arboretum: 4.2 mi
- Cantine Fields: 8.5 mi
- Angelo Canna Town Park: 8.7 mi
- Cantine Complex: 8.8 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 0.5 mi
- Fawn's Leap: 0.6 mi
- Bastion Falls: 0.7 mi
- Santa Cruz Falls: 0.7 mi
- Wildcat Falls: 0.7 mi
- Layman's Monument: 0.5 mi
- stone house: 1.0 mi
- cistern: 1.1 mi
- Tory Fort: 1.5 mi
- Catskill Mountain House: 1.9 mi
- Mountain Top Historical Society: 1.6 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 8.0 mi
- Kiersted House: 9.3 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 10.1 mi
- Thomas Cole National Historic Site: 11.0 mi
- The Great Knot: 8.0 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 8.5 mi
- The Query Family: 9.2 mi
- Opus 40: 9.2 mi
- Flame: 9.2 mi
- Hurricane Ledge: 1.6 mi
- Devils Kitchen: 3.5 mi
- Hawks Rocks: 3.9 mi
- The "Great" Cliffs: 4.3 mi
- Ministers Face: 6.9 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 9.7 mi
- West Landing: 11.9 mi
- South Landing: 11.9 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 13.8 mi
- Oakdale Beach: 15.5 mi
- The Upper Garden: 10.1 mi
- The Walled Garden: 10.1 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 13.5 mi
- The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 13.8 mi
- Bard Community Garden: 13.9 mi
- The Old Game Farm: 5.0 mi
- Rail Explorers: 14.2 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 14.5 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 18.7 mi
- Pratt Rock: 20.2 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 8.5 mi
- Elm Ridge piped spring: 10.0 mi
- Bear Wallow: 21.0 mi
- Bear Wallow: 21.0 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 21.9 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 7.1 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 9.1 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 10.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.9 miles of Lower Buttermilk Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter Mountain | W 268° | 1,228.34 m | 8.3 mi |
| Black Dome | NNW 335° | 1,217.37 m | 6.7 mi |
| Thomas Cole Mountain | NNW 330° | 1,204.87 m | 7.0 mi |
| Blackhead | NNW 342° | 1,200.91 m | 6.2 mi |
| West Kill Mountain | W 265° | 1,186 m | 11.4 mi |
| Plateau Mountain | WSW 241° | 1,168.91 m | 6.3 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | SW 230° | 1,160 m | 5.5 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | W 262° | 1,140 m | 9.1 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, 3 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, 9 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/7970927139
Day trips start here
- Kinderhook · 25 mi
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