Tamarack Falls
Tamarack Falls is a waterfall in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 515 m. Huckleberry Mountain stands 762 m to the south, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Tamarack Run Natural Area, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Gateway to the Endless Mountains passes 30 miles off.
What the record says
- Height
- 7 m
How to reach it
- 29.7 mi off the Gateway to the Endless Mountains
Named places within 25 miles
- Pole Hill: 1.3 mi
- Shrimp Hill: 3.4 mi
- Wright Hill: 3.6 mi
- Lambert Hill: 4.0 mi
- Molyneux Hill: 4.1 mi
- Alpine Falls: 1.3 mi
- Cold Run Waterfall: 1.6 mi
- High Rock Falls: 2.6 mi
- Cottonwood Falls: 2.8 mi
- Rusty Run Falls: 3.4 mi
- Sullivan County Public Park: 3.6 mi
- Laporte Borough Ball Park: 3.7 mi
- Cosgrove Memorial Park: 3.7 mi
- Forksville Borough Community Park: 4.0 mi
- King's Beach, Picture Rocks Park: 15.9 mi
- Barclay Incline Brakehouse: 12.5 mi
- Laquin Lumber Co. mill: 12.8 mi
- tannery: 14.2 mi
- Creveling Lakes: 14.2 mi
- saw mill: 14.3 mi
- Eagles Mere Air Museum and Eagles Mere Auto Museum: 3.6 mi
- Sullivan County Historical Society Museum: 3.7 mi
- Baldwin House: 3.7 mi
- Eagles Mere: 4.8 mi
- Endless Mountains War Memorial Museum: 7.9 mi
- Tamarack Run Natural Area: 0.5 mi
- Conklin Run Wilderness Area: 4.2 mi
- Elklick Run Wilderness Area: 4.6 mi
- The Dell: 4.7 mi
- State Game Lands Number 142: 12.3 mi
- Sullivan County Fairgrounds: 3.6 mi
- Laporte House: 21.8 mi
- Luther's Mills Covered Bridge: 22.0 mi
- Forksville Covered Bridge: 3.8 mi
- Hillsgrove Covered Bridge: 7.2 mi
- Dry Run Picnic Area: 9.0 mi
- Glens Picnic Area: 17.7 mi
- Picture Rocks: 15.9 mi
- "The Pier": 22.0 mi
- Mineral Spring: 2.7 mi
- Baldwin House Garden: 3.7 mi
- Lake Jean Beach: 15.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.2 miles of Tamarack Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huckleberry Mountain | S 172° | 762 m | 12.5 mi |
| Roundtop | S 170° | 758 m | 9.1 mi |
| Grand View | SE 134° | 745 m | 15.9 mi |
| Red Rock Mountain | SE 136° | 721 m | 15.3 mi |
| Tyler Mountain | ENE 68° | 718 m | 15.0 mi |
| Bartlett Mountain | E 81° | 705 m | 17.7 mi |
| Hatch Mountain | NNE 18° | 704 m | 11.7 mi |
| Cahill Mountain | NNW 337° | 703 m | 9.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:42 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:33 | 20:02 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:29 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 15:56 | 16:40 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 22 | 23 | 31 | 43 | 55 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 59 | 47 | 37 | 27 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laporte, 4 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Nov–May — fullest in Apr, leanest in Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 54.0 | 51.6 | 82.8 | 84.9 | 58.7 | 30.7 | 23.0 | 22.7 | 25.8 | 35.6 | 55.0 | 64.2 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Muncy Creek near Sonestown, PA, 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/13722351485
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- Endless Mountains · 29 mi
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