Taughannock Falls
Taughannock Falls is a waterfall in New York, at a modelled elevation of 194 m. Connecticut Hill stands 638 m to the south-southwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Taughannock Falls State Park, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway passes 0.7 miles off.
The story
state park in Tompkins County, New York, U.S.A.
Dates from 1925.
Wikidata Q1662514, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Height
- 66 m
How to reach it
- 0.7 mi off the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway
- 8.9 mi off the Scenic Route 90
Overlooks nearby
- Taughannock Falls Overlook · 1 mi
- Fuertes Swan Pond Overlook · 7 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Jacksonville Community Park: 1.9 mi
- Myers Park: 3.3 mi
- East Shore Park: 7.0 mi
- Allan H. Treman State Marine Park: 7.1 mi
- Ned Hickey Park: 7.3 mi
- Bean Hill: 6.7 mi
- Lobdell Hill: 7.5 mi
- North Hill: 8.9 mi
- Comstock Knoll: 9.2 mi
- Butcher Hill: 9.3 mi
- Taughannock Falls State Park: 0.5 mi
- Sims-Jennings Preserve at Cayuga Cliffs: 3.0 mi
- Cayuga Shores Wildlife Management Area: 5.7 mi
- Stevenson Forest Preserve: 8.8 mi
- Cascadilla Gorge: 9.0 mi
- Frontenac Falls: 1.7 mi
- Ludlowville Falls: 4.0 mi
- Pocket Falls: 4.9 mi
- Emilie Jonas Falls: 5.7 mi
- Ithaca Falls: 8.3 mi
- Tree Service: 1.9 mi
- Fire hydrant: 2.2 mi
- Steel Deck Bridge: 2.7 mi
- Rt 96 Self Storage: 3.4 mi
- Stick And Stone Farm and CSA: 3.8 mi
- Ulysses Historical Society: 2.4 mi
- Cayuga Nature Center: 3.0 mi
- Field School House: 5.5 mi
- Museum of the Earth: 6.1 mi
- Sciencenter: 8.0 mi
- Ithaca Children's Garden: 7.9 mi
- Alpha Phi Alpha memorial garden: 8.9 mi
- Farrand Garden: 8.9 mi
- Rockwell Azalea Garden: 9.0 mi
- Bird Feeding Garden: 9.0 mi
- Peter Wheeler historic marker: 3.9 mi
- Bob Baker BBQ Pavilion: 5.5 mi
- Monument of Ezra Cornell: 8.7 mi
- Andrew Dickson White Statue: 8.8 mi
- 1939 World's Fair Flagpole: 21.9 mi
- Pinnacle Rock: 9.9 mi
- Castle Point: 15.8 mi
- Glen Cathedral: 17.7 mi
- Point O'Rocks: 18.4 mi
- Black Lives Matter: 8.6 mi
- Cornplanter: 24.3 mi
- Der deutsche Strand: 9.5 mi
- Glenwood Beach: 19.6 mi
- Tamarack Spring: 17.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.2 miles of Taughannock Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut Hill | SSW 196° | 638 m | 10.7 mi |
| Star Stanton Hill | ESE 111° | 612 m | 17.6 mi |
| Irish Hill | S 187° | 599 m | 18.3 mi |
| Hammond Hill | ESE 113° | 598 m | 17.6 mi |
| Doll Hill | S 187° | 596 m | 13.5 mi |
| Buck Hill | SSW 201° | 594 m | 10.0 mi |
| Beam Hill | ESE 108° | 594 m | 16.5 mi |
| Rogers Hill | SW 216° | 586 m | 12.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:42 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:30 | 20:05 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 15:51 | 16:37 |
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 | 24 | 30 | 43 | 55 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 60 | 48 | 38 | 28 |
| Precip in | 2.3 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mecklenburg 4SW, 10 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–Apr — fullest in Mar, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 155 | 165 | 224 | 191 | 107 | 74.1 | 56.0 | 47.8 | 31.3 | 84.3 | 103 | 177 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Salmon Creek Near Ludlowville NY, 4 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/1301291752
Day trips start here
- Trumansburg · 3 mi
- Eastern Finger Lakes · 7 mi
- Ithaca · 9 mi
- Watkins Glen · 17 mi
- Cortland · 22 mi
- Finger Lakes · 27 mi
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