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Old Mill Falls

Old Mill Falls, seen from above at true elevation

Old Mill Falls is a waterfall in New York, at a modelled elevation of 548 m. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the west-northwest, 8.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Platte Clove Preserve, a nature reserve less than a tenth of a mile away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 20 miles off.

What the record says

Height
4 m

How to reach it

Coordinates42.13295, -74.08587

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 4.7 mi
  • Andy Lee Field: 6.3 mi
  • Mountain Top Arboretum: 6.5 mi
  • Woodstock Waterfall Park: 6.7 mi
  • The Comeau Property: 6.9 mi
Historic sites: 45
  • Boarding House: 0.1 mi
  • Tory Fort: 2.4 mi
  • Layman's Monument: 4.0 mi
  • cistern: 4.4 mi
  • stone house: 4.5 mi
Cliffs: 18
  • Devils Kitchen: 0.2 mi
  • The "Great" Cliffs: 1.2 mi
  • Hawks Rocks: 1.3 mi
  • Hurricane Ledge: 2.0 mi
  • Ministers Face: 3.5 mi
Beaches: 18
  • Saugerties Beach: 8.1 mi
  • West Landing: 10.1 mi
  • South Landing: 10.2 mi
  • Ulster Landing Beach: 11.5 mi
  • Kingston Point Beach: 15.3 mi
Artworks: 16
Gardens: 12
  • The Upper Garden: 9.2 mi
  • The Walled Garden: 9.2 mi
  • Blithewood Garden: 11.6 mi
  • Rough Garden: 11.9 mi
  • The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 11.9 mi
Attractions: 7
  • The Old Game Farm: 8.3 mi
  • World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 11.8 mi
  • Rail Explorers: 12.0 mi
  • Hudson River Cruises: 15.8 mi
  • Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses: 20.3 mi
Springs: 6
  • Devil's Acre spring: 7.8 mi
  • Elm Ridge piped spring: 12.6 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 17.7 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 17.7 mi
  • Keyhole Spring: 18.6 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Lighthouses: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.3 miles of Old Mill Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Hunter MountainWNW 293°1,228.34 m8.0 mi
Black DomeN 349°1,217.37 m9.7 mi
Thomas Cole MountainNNW 345°1,204.87 m9.8 mi
BlackheadN 354°1,200.91 m9.4 mi
West Kill MountainWNW 283°1,186 m10.7 mi
Plateau MountainW 274°1,168.91 m4.5 mi
Sugarloaf MountainW 268°1,160 m3.3 mi
Southwest Hunter MountainWNW 284°1,140 m8.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3219:09
June solstice05:2119:5420:37
September equinox06:4418:1918:56
December solstice07:2215:4316:28

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 5080 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222431435463686660483828
Precip in4.94.05.75.24.86.05.56.36.37.04.97.2

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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs5.23.86.39.76.32.33.03.82.44.25.27.5

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.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/11942943013

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