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Northwest Bay Brook Falls

Directions

From I-87, exit 22, take NY 9N north toward Bolton Landing.  Six miles north of the village of Bolton Landing, the highway will cross the Northwest Bay Brook.  Just after crossing the bridge, there is a parking area on the right.

County: Warren
Town: Bolton
USGS Map: Silver Bay
Waterway: Northwest Bay Brook
Latitude: N 43° 37' 40"
Longitude: W 73° 36' 34"
Drop: 25'
Type: Slide
Region: Off NY 9N north of Bolton Landing
Parking: Paved and unpaved lots
Trail type: Dirt
Length of hike: 0.1 mile
Difficulty: Moderate
Accessibility: Public
Name: Unnamed

Silver Bay Quadrangle

The parking area here holds a dozen or so cars but it is very possible that it may be full when you visit.  Simply continue a little further along the highway and there is a dirt road leading in to another parking lot.  

To reach the falls, there are two options.  Continue back down the highway on foot until you reach a trail on your left (the same side of the road as both parking areas) leading in to a DEC area.  Directly across the road from here, the guardrails end.  In 2013, there was a beam moved to the side of the trailhead with a stop sign on it.  The trail will be quite evident.  You will come to the edge of the stream at the crest of the upper falls.  Although this route is easy to find and traverse, you are at the edge of the crest of this waterfall so you can't fully appreciate the plunge.  Also, any view you may be able to get of the lower falls is from above.  Here, you are on the east side of the brook.

option two will give you better views of the lower falls and downstream views of the upper falls.  The trade-off is in difficulty.  This trail, which is on the west side of the brook, is longer and a bit more strenuous.  Go back out to the highway and proceed right to the bridge over the brook.  After crossing the bridge, across the road from the Northwest Bay Brook Fishing Access Site, turn right and head into the woods.  The trails here are not definitive, but are passable.  Go down the hill and then up the steep embankment.  When you reach the top, bear right, keeping the brook in view and keep walking.  You will eventually come to the edge of the brook and, with a little investigating, will find both the upper and lower falls.

The upper waterfall is about a 25' cascade, somewhere between a classical cascade and a very steep slide.  We lean toward the cascade.  The river takes a sharp bend to its left, travels about 60' or so and then narrows into a flume as it slides through the walls of the gorge here.

The Northwest Bay Brook empties into Lake George.  The water from this then flows through La Chute in Ticondaroga and ends up in Lake Champlain.  The flow then goes north through Canada on the Richelieu River and empties into the St. Lawrence River.

Last update:  February 13, 2016

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