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Kirk Douglas Park Falls

Directions

In the city of Amsterdam, NY 5 is Main Street.  At Church Street, it changes from West Main to East Main.  From this intersection, drive west one block and turn right.  From here the first intersection is Guy Park Avenue.  A right here takes you to Guy Park Avenue Extension.  The parking lot will immediately be on your left, just before crossing another bridge over the creek.

County: Montgomery
Town: City of Amsterdam
USGS Map: Amsterdam
Waterway: North Chuctanunda Creek
Latitude: N 42° 56' 20"
Longitude: W 74° 11' 29"
Drop: 10'
Type: Curtain cascade
Region: City of Amsterdam
Parking: Paved lot
Trail type: Dirt
Length of hike: 2 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Accessibility: Public
Name: Unnamed

Amsterdam Quadrangle

Kirk Douglas Park FallsKirk Douglas Park is one of several parks within the city of Amsterdam.  This one obviously is named to honor the hometown actor.  The park itself might be deceptive to find without directions since it is surrounded by cement walls and a number of one-way streets in the area.  The waterfall is actually a series of drops with the primary one being a curtain cascade that drops about 10'.  Below that there is a slide type drop totally another twenty feet.  Both of these sections are upstream of the Guy Park Avenue Extension bridge.  Downstream of this there is another small section that probably is best described as a rapids.

The water from the North Chuctanunda Creek makes its way into the Mohawk River and the Hudson River before reaching the Atlantic Ocean in New York City.

Last update:  October 7, 2017

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