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Santa Cruz Falls

Santa Cruz Falls, seen from above at true elevation

Santa Cruz Falls is a waterfall in New York, at a modelled elevation of 561 m. Hunter Mountain stands 1,228 m to the west, 7.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Delmura Falls, a waterfall 0.6 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 23 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Height
17 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.18275, -74.08153

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Nature reserves
Parks
  • Rip Van Winkle Lake Park: 2.7 mi
  • Mountain Top Arboretum: 3.6 mi
  • C.D. Lane Park: 8.5 mi
  • Angelo Canna Town Park: 9.0 mi
  • Cantine Fields: 9.1 mi
Waterfalls: 56
Historic sites: 52
  • Layman's Monument: 0.8 mi
  • Tory Fort: 1.1 mi
  • stone house: 1.5 mi
  • cistern: 1.7 mi
  • Catskill Mountain House: 2.5 mi
Museums: 36
Artworks: 18
Cliffs: 15
  • Hurricane Ledge: 1.5 mi
  • Devils Kitchen: 3.5 mi
  • Hawks Rocks: 4.1 mi
  • The "Great" Cliffs: 4.4 mi
  • Devils Tombstone: 6.6 mi
Beaches: 15
  • Saugerties Beach: 10.2 mi
  • West Landing: 12.4 mi
  • South Landing: 12.4 mi
  • Ulster Landing Beach: 14.2 mi
  • Oakdale Beach: 16.2 mi
Gardens: 12
  • The Upper Garden: 10.7 mi
  • The Walled Garden: 10.7 mi
  • Blithewood Garden: 14.0 mi
  • The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 14.2 mi
  • Bard Community Garden: 14.3 mi
Attractions: 6
  • The Old Game Farm: 5.4 mi
  • Rail Explorers: 13.6 mi
  • World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 14.0 mi
  • Hudson River Cruises: 19.0 mi
  • Pratt Rock: 19.6 mi
Springs: 6
  • Devil's Acre spring: 7.8 mi
  • Elm Ridge piped spring: 9.6 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 20.7 mi
  • Bear Wallow: 20.7 mi
  • Keyhole Spring: 21.5 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Lighthouses: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.7 miles of Santa Cruz Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Hunter MountainW 268°1,228.34 m7.6 mi
Black DomeNNW 341°1,217.37 m6.4 mi
Thomas Cole MountainNNW 336°1,204.87 m6.7 mi
BlackheadNNW 349°1,200.91 m6.0 mi
West Kill MountainW 265°1,186 m10.7 mi
Plateau MountainWSW 237°1,168.91 m5.7 mi
Sugarloaf MountainSW 225°1,160 m5.0 mi
Southwest Hunter MountainW 260°1,140 m8.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3219:09
June solstice05:2119:5420:37
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:2215:4316:28

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °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, 3 mi away.

Streamflow

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.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/11812699374

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