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Tamarack Falls

Tamarack Falls, seen from above at true elevation

Tamarack Falls is a waterfall in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 515 m. Roundtop stands 758 m to the south, 9.1 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

Coordinates41.46840, -76.53135

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • 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
Waterfalls: 52
  • 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
Parks: 20
  • 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
Historic sites: 14
  • 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
Museums: 11
  • 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
Ghost towns: 4
Attractions: 3
  • Sullivan County Fairgrounds: 3.6 mi
  • Laporte House: 21.8 mi
  • Luther's Mills Covered Bridge: 22.0 mi
Covered bridges: 2
Picnic sites: 2
Cliffs: 2
Springs: 1
  • Mineral Spring: 2.7 mi
Gardens: 1
  • Baldwin House Garden: 3.7 mi
Beaches: 1
  • Lake Jean Beach: 15.7 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.3 miles of Tamarack Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
RoundtopS758 m9.1 mi
Grand ViewSE745 m15.9 mi
Red Rock MountainSE721 m15.3 mi
Tyler MountainENE718 m15.0 mi
Bartlett MountainE705 m17.7 mi
Hatch MountainNNE704 m11.7 mi
Cahill MountainNNW703 m9.3 mi
Huckleberry MountainN700 m9.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1018:4219:18
June solstice05:3320:0220:44
September equinox06:5418:2919:05
December solstice07:3015:5616:40

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222331435563686659473727
Precip in4.53.13.84.24.64.75.35.15.24.63.84.4

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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs54.051.682.884.958.730.723.022.725.835.655.064.2

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.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/13722351485

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