Stair Brook Falls
Stair Brook Falls is a waterfall in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 160 m. Higby Mountain stands 272 m to the north, 8.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Pistapaug Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 23 miles off.
What the record says
- Height
- 14 m
How to reach it
- 22.6 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 28.3 mi off the North Fork Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Pistapaug Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Fowler Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Three Notches: 2.3 mi
- Quonnipaug Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Trimountain: 2.5 mi
- Lane Pond Watershed Reserve Land: 1.6 mi
- Meyerhuber Preserve: 1.7 mi
- Town Open Space (Barnett Property): 1.8 mi
- Quonnipaug Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Braemore Preserve: 2.1 mi
- Abraham Baldwin: 1.7 mi
- Durham Volunteer Firefighters Memorial: 3.8 mi
- Durham War Memorial: 3.9 mi
- Wallingford World War I Memorial: 5.3 mi
- Wallingford Korean War Memorial: 5.3 mi
- Quonnipaug Lake Boat Launch: 2.3 mi
- Guilford Town Park: 2.6 mi
- Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Park: 3.3 mi
- Marcus Cooke Memorial Park: 3.7 mi
- Durham Town Green: 3.9 mi
- Wallingford Community Garden: 3.2 mi
- Lyman Orchards Sunflower Maze: 4.8 mi
- Memorial Garden: 9.4 mi
- Erin Street Community Garden: 10.3 mi
- Madison Community Gardens: 10.9 mi
- Durham Historical Society: 3.9 mi
- Wallingford Historical Society: 5.3 mi
- Wallingford Historical Society: 5.3 mi
- Farming Museum: 6.6 mi
- Wadsworth Mansion: 8.1 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 6.3 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 9.0 mi
- Jacobs Public Beach: 11.2 mi
- Shell Beach: 11.2 mi
- Hotchkiss Cove Beach: 11.3 mi
- Spruce Glen Falls: 6.4 mi
- Wadsworth Falls: 7.2 mi
- Wadsworth Little Falls: 7.4 mi
- Nineveh Falls: 7.4 mi
- Intermittent Cascade: 8.4 mi
- snake: 2.9 mi
- Totem Pole: 8.8 mi
- First Tear: 9.8 mi
- Henry Clay Work Bust: 9.9 mi
- Henry Gould Lewis: 11.5 mi
- Washington Trail monument: 2.1 mi
- Selectmen's Stones: 2.5 mi
- Dodge Dump Truck: 3.0 mi
- Bear Cave: 3.4 mi
- Middletown-Durham boundary stone: 6.7 mi
- Bluff Head: 1.7 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 2.2 mi
- Chimney Corner: 12.2 mi
- Pine Ledge: 13.9 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 14.2 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 3.7 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 9.0 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 13.9 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 17.8 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 19.5 mi
- Picnic Grove: 21.9 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 22.3 mi
- Cold Spring: 11.7 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 14.1 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 22.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.7 miles of Stair Brook Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Higby Mountain | N 355° | 272 m | 8.8 mi |
| Trimountain | NNW 346° | 232 m | 2.5 mi |
| Fowler Mountain | NNW 326° | 230 m | 1.5 mi |
| Beseck Mountain | N 350° | 219 m | 6.2 mi |
| Pistapaug Mountain | NW 308° | 210 m | 0.8 mi |
| Camels Hump | N 354° | 207 m | 8.2 mi |
| Mount Carmel | W 273° | 206 m | 8.6 mi |
| Goose Hill | E 81° | 201 m | 8.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:27 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:47 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:14 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 15:41 | 16:25 |
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 | 28 | 30 | 38 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 73 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 3.4 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Meriden Markham Muni AP, 8 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–May — fullest in Mar, leanest in Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 19.8 | 20.1 | 25.3 | 23.4 | 16.9 | 9.6 | 6.1 | 4.9 | 6.8 | 8.8 | 10.0 | 19.8 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Muddy River Near East Wallingford, CT, 3 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/7447619065
Day trips start here
- Essex · 18 mi
- Old Saybrook · 20 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 23 mi
- Old Lyme · 23 mi
- East Lyme · 26 mi
- Montville · 30 mi
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