| County: |
Oswego |
| Town: |
Redfield |
| USGS Map: |
Redfield |
| Waterway: |
Mad River North
Branch |
| Latitude: |
N 43.60330o |
| Longitude: |
W 75.81880o
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| Drop: |
12' |
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The Mad River Upper Falls are accessible at the end of the Otto Mills
Drive which is a seasonally maintained dirt road off Oswego County
Route 17, in the area of the Battle Hill State Forest. This
is just upstream from the Mad River
Falls. Otto
Mills Drive is off the east side of CR 17, which runs north/south
in the northeast corner of the county. You will find the
junction of Otto Mills and CR 17 a couple of miles north of the
hamlet of Redfield. You will drive down this road about 1.7
miles where the road ends. Actually, the road descends to
the river, but it looked more like an ATV trail so we opted to
park and walk. When you reach the river, bear left.
Although we saw several posted signs on properties on the Otto
Mills Drive, the road appears on maps, so it is public! The
only posted sign we saw on our walk was on a bridge that indicated
it was the access to a club on the other side of the river.
After we had been walking about a quarter mile, we came to an
open field which was someone's backyard so we turned back and
found a place to descend to the river. The falls were just
upstream from this point.
We originally posted this as the Mad River Falls. A
viewer who grew up in the area contacted us and informed us of the
true location of the Mad River Falls. Since these are just
upstream from the Mad River Falls, we have tentatively dubbed
these the Mad River Upper Falls.
The Mad River dumps into the Salmon River, which flows into
Lake Ontario.
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