Mill Park Falls

While on NYS Route 9N in the village of Lake Luzerne, you will pass Wayside Beach to the east.  Directly across 9N from this is Mill Street.  The waterfall is just off this corner.  Park on the side of the street.

Mill Park Falls is somewhat unique, at least for this website.  There are many instances where falls are unnamed so we do our best to give them a descriptive label.  In this case, the falls are named, but we can find no reference to the waterway they are on.  Since this waterway is the outlet from Lake Luzerne to the Hudson River, we have named it as we have.  Even upstream from Lake Luzerne, the stream feeding it, and another stream feeding it, are not identified.  Having said that, we have not researched this on the local level.  If anyone knows the actual name of this waterway, please contact us.

At the top of these falls is a small mill pond retained by what appears to be a man-made structure, perhaps a dam at one time.  From that, there is a series of steps and slides before the main drop next to an old structure, perhaps a former mill, on the other side of the channel.  Your best views of the falls from downstream are actually from below that mill.

Lake Luzerne empties through this waterway into the Hudson River, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

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