Upper Burden Falls
Upper Burden Falls is a waterfall in New York, at a modelled elevation of 46 m. Berlin Mountain stands 853 m to the east, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Burden Iron Works, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Mohawk Towpath Byway passes 5.0 miles off.
What the record says
- Height
- 8 m
How to reach it
- 5.0 mi off the Mohawk Towpath Byway, National
- 5.9 mi off the Lakes to Locks Passage, National
- 14.6 mi off the Revolutionary Trail
- 21.2 mi off the Mohawk Trail - MA, National
Overlooks nearby
- Mohawk River view · 7 mi
- Lock 7 Dam · 11 mi
- Williamstown view · 24 mi
- The Hopper · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Sheridan Avenue Park: 0.3 mi
- South Troy Swimming Pool: 0.6 mi
- Carroll Hill Park: 0.7 mi
- Taras Shevchenko Place: 0.8 mi
- Lots of Hope Park: 0.9 mi
- Mount Olympus: 2.8 mi
- Olcott Hill: 5.2 mi
- Rysedorph Hill: 5.5 mi
- Prospect Hill: 6.7 mi
- Mount Rafinesque: 7.0 mi
- Burden Iron Works: 0.1 mi
- King Fuels: 0.5 mi
- Burden Iron Lower Works: 0.5 mi
- Smart's Pond Dam Ruins: 0.7 mi
- Taras Shevchenko: 0.8 mi
- Burden Iron Works Museum: 0.6 mi
- Watervliet Arsenal Museum: 1.2 mi
- Watervliet Historical Society: 1.7 mi
- Hart-Cluett Mansion: 1.8 mi
- Defreest House: 1.9 mi
- Stow Hill: 0.5 mi
- Wildflowers: 1.0 mi
- Leslie's Garden: 1.3 mi
- Troy Rocks: 1.5 mi
- Gretchen's Garden: 1.7 mi
- Burden Pond Preserve: 0.5 mi
- Stow Hill Nature Preserve: 0.6 mi
- HVCC: 0.8 mi
- Osgood Woods: 1.0 mi
- John B. Staalesen Vanderheyden Preserve: 1.2 mi
- Nipper the RCA Dog: 3.8 mi
- Mayor Thomas Whalen III: 4.7 mi
- I love NY: 5.0 mi
- Wild Rice: 5.0 mi
- The Cathedral Evening: 5.0 mi
- Lower Burden Falls: 0.1 mi
- Corning Cascade Falls: 0.2 mi
- Smart's Cascade: 0.6 mi
- Poesten Kill Falls: 1.4 mi
- Piscawen Falls: 3.3 mi
- Saint Brigid's Bell: 1.1 mi
- John Van Buren Grave: 1.8 mi
- William Learned Marcy Grave: 1.9 mi
- United Methodist Church bell: 2.1 mi
- Erastus Dow Palmer Grave: 2.1 mi
- Cohoes Falls: 5.9 mi
- Crystal Cliff: 7.3 mi
- Helderberg Escarpment: 16.1 mi
- Cave Wall: 17.0 mi
- Lower Misery Wall: 17.0 mi
- Spring Avenue Spring: 1.1 mi
- Bathtub Spring: 17.0 mi
- Pond off Chair Factory Road: 24.1 mi
- Karista Spring: 24.6 mi
- Tallulah Spring: 24.6 mi
- Brunswick Vanderheyden Reservoir Park Beach: 5.0 mi
- Waterfront: 8.1 mi
- Collins Park Beach: 15.9 mi
- Thompsons Lake State Park Beach: 18.3 mi
- Brown's Beach: 19.7 mi
- Rest Area I-87 (South Bound): 9.0 mi
- Clifton Park Rest Area: 12.8 mi
- Rest Area I-90 (West Bound): 13.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.9 miles of Upper Burden Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin Mountain | E 92° | 853 m | 20.5 mi |
| Misery Mountain | ESE 107° | 793 m | 19.8 mi |
| Mount Raimer | E 87° | 784 m | 20.6 mi |
| Rounds Mountain | ESE 117° | 683 m | 20.2 mi |
| Rocky Hill | ESE 102° | 625 m | 16.1 mi |
| Perigo Hill | ESE 102° | 571 m | 11.7 mi |
| Buck Rock | ESE 108° | 562 m | 16.1 mi |
| The Gipfel | ESE 113° | 561 m | 12.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:30 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:54 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:17 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:39 | 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 | 26 | 28 | 36 | 49 | 61 | 70 | 75 | 73 | 66 | 53 | 42 | 32 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 2.8 | 3.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Troy L&D, 3 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–Jan, Mar–May — fullest in Apr, leanest in Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 15,008 | 14,412 | 22,592 | 30,537 | 18,733 | 11,217 | 7,917 | 6,770 | 6,884 | 10,224 | 14,285 | 16,823 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Hudson River AT Green Island NY, 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/6966521974
Day trips start here
- Troy · 2 mi
- Watervliet · 2 mi
- Albany · 5 mi
- Cohoes · 5 mi
- Rensselaer · 5 mi
- Clifton Park · 13 mi
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