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There is something about a waterfall that people find very positive and enjoyable.  It seems that even small waterfalls are beautiful and the larger ones are nothing short of spectacular.  In addition, the waterfall is one of Mother Nature's ways of cleaning and aerating our water supply.

This website has become a comprehensive guide to the waterfalls in Northern New York.  It includes all named waterfalls as well as many commonly named and unnamed falls that are on waterways in this region.  Please view our definition page for an explanation of what we have included.  We would also encourage you to read our page of disclaimers, precautions and copyright information.

We are constantly adding new falls and looking for contributors who might have photographs of waterfalls that we do not have pictures of.  Please read on if you would like to have your pictures published on this website.

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We are pleased to announce the release of my latest book, Hiking the Adirondack Waterfalls Visit our bookstore

We are also pleased to announce that we have released the first two of our series of lighthouse guidebooks.  Since we have now published guidebooks for waterfalls and lighthouses, we have expanded our bookstore and relocated it to the website davidschryver.com.  It operates the same as it did when it was a part of this website.  The user will not see any difference.

IMPORTANT NOTICE ... It is recommended that you access our bookstore using a computer rather than a phone or tablet.  Our shopping cart and checkout process does involve the opening of multiple windows.  We have had reports from people who had problems placing their order because they were not able to navigate to a second window on their device.  If you are able to do this on your device, you shouldn't have an issue.  If you encounter any issues during the ordering process, please feel free to e-mail us explaining the problem.
 
Waterfalls of New York State Roadside Falls of Northern New York Volume 1 Roadside Falls of Northern New York Volume 2 Roadside Falls of Northern New York Volume 3 Backyard Cascades of Northern New York Hiking the Adirondack Waterfalls
Latest Changes/Additions

June 19:  Roaring Brook Lower Falls

May 13:  Santa Clara Lower Falls, Santa Clara Second Lower Falls

Power dams are very prevalent in northern New York.  At many of these sites, a waterfall still exists at the base of the dam but at some, the dam replaced the waterfall.  There are even a few situations where a dam was built and the flooding that resulted covered waterfalls that were upstream.  These are included for their historical significance.

When this website was started, we also listed rapids.  We will still list officially named rapids on our Officially Named Waterfalls and Rapids page but otherwise will not be providing pages for rapids except for those that are otherwise considered waterfalls. 

When visiting any waterfall, please use caution.  Although some sites listed do provide handrail or retaining devices, most do not.  The majority of these waterfalls are in their natural setting where you will be experiencing the natural beauty of the region.  Your safety should be a primary concern.

Another concern when visiting a waterfall is its legal accessibility.  Is the waterfall on public, or private land?  Many times, NYS DEC signs will confirm that the land is state owned.  Other times, there are no signs.  Usually in these areas, using your discretion is key.  If you a careful and respectful, you probably won't have a problem.  The real question lies with posted property.  We always encourage waterfall hikers to honor the landowner's rights.  However, it is sometimes possible to access the riverbank on posted property.  For the convenience of our readers, we have obtained a copy of Public Navigation Rights in New York State.  This document answers some frequent questions about this topic.

Waterfalls recently added to the GNIS ... for any geographic feature to be officially named, it must be listed on the USGS GNIS data base.  For a complete explanation of that please refer to our Official Falls page.  Between 2016 and 2019, we undertook a project to have several northern New York waterfalls added to that data base.  We have completed that project.  Note that there were a few locations we felt should be included but our efforts to contact the appropriate parties were not met with the courtesy of a response.  For a complete list of falls added, please refer to our "Waterfall Naming Project" page.  Although we have "finished" this project, we certainly would reactivate the effort if we were contacted about locations that should be included.  If you know of any such waterfall, please feel free to send us an email.

To facilitate use of this site, the menu in the banner above lists waterfalls in three ways:

  • "Listed Alphabetically" ... a separate page that provides an alphabetical list of all Northern New York waterfalls.
  • "Listed By County" ... a separate page that provides an alphabetical list of falls within the respective county.
  • "Listed By River" ... this page lists all falls based on the waterway they are on.  A River" ... this page lists all falls based on the waterway they are on.  A complete description of how this is set up is given on the page.

For each waterfall, a chart is provided which includes a number of items of pertinent data on the waterfall.  A complete breakdown of that chart is found on our definition page.  Pictures are also provided for each site.  If there are no pictures of a particular falls, we just haven't been there yet.  If you have original pictures of a site that we do not yet have pictures of, we graciously accept photo submissions and give credit accordingly.

Many of the included falls are not on maps.  There are, without exaggeration, hundreds of unnamed waterfalls in northern New York.  If anyone viewing this has anything they feel could contribute to the cause, please do not hesitate to contact us.  You may submit a waterfall, complete with pictures, for consideration by completing our Waterfall Submission Form.  All contributions will be credited appropriately.

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