| County: |
Hamilton |
| Town: |
Arietta |
| USGS Map: |
Raquette Lake |
| Waterway: |
Death Brook |
| Latitude: |
N 43.81187o |
| Longitude: |
W 74.59457o |
| Drop: |
~70' |
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From the intersection of NYS Routes 28, 30 and 28N in Long Lake,
proceed west on route 28. Since this is a significant
distance, and vehicle odometers do vary, you might want to look
for landmarks rather than relying only on the odometer. At
about 9.5 miles, on your left, you will see a yellow sign
indicating "Stop. Barrier Ahead". There is
also a yellow gate. This is just after a dip in the road
where you cross a small creek. Also note that just before
this, there is a road on the right that has the same type of
yellow sign and gate! This is the entrance to a park and you
don't want to be there, although the gentleman working there in
September 2011 was very cordial!
This same gentleman referred to this as Death Brook Falls and
the website AdirondackExperience.com states that it is
also known as Secret Falls. We suspect that all of these are
unofficial monikers but whatever you want to call it, it is a very
pretty location. As you are at the base of these falls, you
have the impression that you are in a fairly remote location, and
yet, it is less than a 0.2 mile walk and easy to get to.
Park by the gate and walk up the dirt roadway. In about
400' you will come to an open field. Go straight across it
and the roadway continues, narrowing as it goes. The path
will bear left and reach the creek where you should turn right and
go upstream where you will soon find the falls.
The drop is not a vertical plunge, but close to it. We
were there in September and there wasn't a tremendous amount of
water flowing. We suspect that during spring run-off, the
cascade would be quite impressive. We also suspect that in
the wetter times of the year, your walk in would be a little more
difficult. There is a swampy area along the path that was
quite damp even when we were there. In the spring it would
probably be very wet. We were even able to walk up the
creek-bed, from stone to stone, without getting wet.
Death Brook flows into the Raquette River. The Raquestte
flows through Long Lake and Raquette Pond (which
could be considered as part of Tupper Lake) as it makes its way into the St. Lawrence river in Massena,
New York.
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