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Triphammer Falls

Tompkins County, New York

Your visit at a glance

Waterfall height
Not recorded
Location
Tompkins County, New York
Access status
Campus views from road and footbridges
The walk
Short walks on campus sidewalks to the two bridges
Ground & access
Paved walkways and road bridges with fences. Stay on trails; swimming below the falls is prohibited.
NYFalls.com: Fall Creek Gorge, Ithaca
Triphammer Falls, NY
Triphammer Falls, NY
Photo creditPhoto: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Triphammer Falls is a falls of about 56 feet on Fall Creek at the outlet of Beebe Lake on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca. The top quarter is a dam; the rest is natural cascades. Walk out on the Thurston Avenue bridge for a view of the falls. Then go back to the south end of the bridge, follow the sidewalk left into the woods for about 100 feet, and turn left on the paved walkway to the pedestrian bridge above the falls and the dam. Return the same way.

Plan your visit

Cornell University campus to the Thurston Avenue bridge over Fall Creek, then the Triphammer Foot Bridge at the Beebe Lake dam

No source gives a distance from parking to these viewpoints. NYFalls describes them as stops on a campus loop.

Paved walkways and road bridges with fences. Stay on trails; swimming below the falls is prohibited.

Where to start

NYFalls describes a campus lot on the east end of the gorge near the Beebe Lake dam with some spaces not reserved for campus use; check and obey the signs. Other campus lots are not all open to the public.

Timing & water

Cornell says the Fall Creek gorge trails are open year round but only a small part is maintained in winter. The gorges are especially dangerous after large storms.

Before you go

NYFalls lists admission as free.

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Within 40 straight-line miles. Road and trail distances will differ.

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Tompkins County, New York.

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