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Shelving Rock Falls

Shelving Rock Falls, seen from above at true elevation

Shelving Rock Falls is a waterfall in New York, at a modelled elevation of 120 m. Black Mountain stands 805 m to the northeast, 5.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Log Bay Island, a picnic site 0.5 miles away. Central Adirondack Trail passes 9.0 miles off.

What the record says

Height
15.2 m

How to reach it

Coordinates43.55347, -73.60228

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Log Bay Island: 0.5 mi
  • Huckleberry Island: 0.7 mi
  • Pleasure Island: 1.6 mi
  • Recluse Island: 2.4 mi
  • Sarah Island: 2.4 mi
Historic sites: 36
  • Bolton Veterans' Memorial: 2.7 mi
  • Bolton Time Capsule: 2.7 mi
  • Lafayette's Tour: 10.1 mi
  • Old Champlain Canal Lock 19: 10.8 mi
  • Father Jogues Monument: 10.8 mi
Nature reserves: 35
Cliffs: 27
  • Ark Wall: 0.7 mi
  • Eagle Cliff: 3.0 mi
  • Stewarts Ledge: 3.5 mi
  • New Buck: 3.8 mi
  • Deer Leap: 7.9 mi
Attractions: 21
  • Leonelli's Playland Arcade: 10.5 mi
  • Lake George Steamboat Company: 10.6 mi
  • Doctor Morbid's Haunted House: 10.6 mi
  • Revolution Rail Co. - Thurman Station: 12.1 mi
  • Wildwest Ranch & Western Town: 12.2 mi
Museums: 18
Picnic sites: 13
Beaches: 11
  • Lake Hadlock Beach: 9.7 mi
  • Morey Stein Beach: 10.3 mi
  • Hague Town Beach: 14.2 mi
  • Haviland's Cove Beach: 18.2 mi
  • Haviland Cove Beach: 18.3 mi
Waterfalls: 7
  • Buttermilk Falls: 9.1 mi
  • Uncas Falls: 9.9 mi
  • Dunkley Falls: 15.8 mi
  • Bear Slide: 17.1 mi
  • Rockwell Falls: 20.3 mi
Gardens: 6
  • Community Garden: 3.9 mi
  • Arboretum: 14.0 mi
  • Schroon Community Garden: 21.1 mi
  • Colonial Revival King's Garden: 22.7 mi
  • Colonial Revival King's Garden: 22.7 mi
Artworks: 2
  • Chiseled Slate monoliths: 18.6 mi
  • Mandala II: 21.4 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Vermont Welcome Center: 15.7 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.7 miles of Shelving Rock Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Black MountainNE 44°805 m5.1 mi
Erebus MountainENE 59°765 m3.0 mi
Sleeping BeautyE 83°715 m2.6 mi
Buck MountainS 172°711 m2.3 mi
Catamount MountainNNE 13°702 m9.5 mi
Fivemile MountainNNE 12°688 m6.1 mi
Huckleberry MountainNNE 13°680 m6.4 mi
Pilot KnobS 183°658 m4.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:2919:07
June solstice05:1419:5620:40
September equinox06:4218:1618:54
December solstice07:2515:3416:21

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 5080 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F212333475968727163513928
Precip in3.02.63.03.33.34.44.44.53.64.13.03.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Whitehall, 10 mi away.

Months at or above the year’s average flow: Mar–May — fullest in Apr, leanest in Aug.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs5794789162,5551,547688354231233382611673

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Schroon River AT Riverbank 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/4900034321

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