Shelving Rock Falls
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
- 9.0 mi off the Central Adirondack Trail
- 9.0 mi off the Dude Ranch Trail
- 8.3 mi off the Lakes to Locks Passage, National
- 18.9 mi off the Stone Valley Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Flag View · 9 mi
- Summit View · 9 mi
- The Eagle's Eye · 10 mi
- Lake George Panorama · 11 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- 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
- Shelving Rock Mountain: 0.6 mi
- Little Buck Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Buck Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Sleeping Beauty: 2.6 mi
- First Peak: 2.7 mi
- The Pinnacle: 3.8 mi
- LGLC Wing Pond: 4.2 mi
- Trout Lake: 4.8 mi
- Protected Land (No Access): 4.9 mi
- Pilot Knob Ridge Preserve: 5.9 mi
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Bolton Historical Museum: 2.7 mi
- Skenesborough Museum: 10.0 mi
- Lake George Historical Association: 10.4 mi
- House of Frankenstein Wax Museum: 10.5 mi
- Fort William Henry: 10.7 mi
- Log Bay Island: 0.5 mi
- Huckleberry Island: 0.7 mi
- Commission Point Picnic Area: 1.7 mi
- Little As You Were Island: 2.0 mi
- West Dollar Island: 3.3 mi
- 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
- 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
- Arboretum: 14.0 mi
- Schroon Community Garden: 21.1 mi
- Colonial Revival King's Garden: 22.7 mi
- Japanese Garden: 24.7 mi
- Chiseled Slate monoliths: 18.6 mi
- Mandala II: 21.4 mi
- Vermont Welcome Center: 15.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.8 miles of Shelving Rock Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Mountain | NE 44° | 805 m | 5.1 mi |
| Erebus Mountain | ENE 59° | 765 m | 3.0 mi |
| Sleeping Beauty | E 83° | 715 m | 2.6 mi |
| Buck Mountain | S 172° | 711 m | 2.3 mi |
| Catamount Mountain | NNE 13° | 702 m | 9.5 mi |
| Fivemile Mountain | NNE 12° | 688 m | 6.1 mi |
| Huckleberry Mountain | NNE 13° | 680 m | 6.4 mi |
| Pilot Knob | S 183° | 658 m | 4.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:29 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 19:56 | 20:40 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 15:34 | 16:21 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 21 | 23 | 33 | 47 | 59 | 68 | 72 | 71 | 63 | 51 | 39 | 28 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 3.6 |
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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 579 | 478 | 916 | 2,555 | 1,547 | 688 | 354 | 231 | 233 | 382 | 611 | 673 |
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.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/4900034321
Day trips start here
- Lake George · 4 mi
- Crown Point · 29 mi
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