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West Brook First Falls

Directions
From I-87 south of Lake George village, take NY 9N west.  Park at the Clark Mularz Memorial Field in the Lake George Recreation Area (which for some reason has an address of Lake Luzerne).  You'll turn off NY 9N onto Transfer Road, go past the transfer station and a gravel business, keep going uphill toward the ball fields and once you arrive to a large parking lot, park on the left, back side, near the trailhead.
County: Warren
Town: Lake George
USGS Map: Lake George
Waterway: West Brook
Latitude: N 43° 24' 13"
Longitude: W 73° 43' 57"
Drop: 25'
Type: Slide
Region: Southwest of Lake George village
Parking: Parking lot
Trail type: Dirt
Length of hike: 0.25 mi one-way
Difficulty: Easy
Accessibility: Public
Name: Common

Lake George Quadrangle

Alder Creek Falls #1
Please note that in order to view all 5 waterfalls on West Brook, you will start the hike by heading to First Falls, then on to Second Falls.  With a series of unnamed falls on a waterway, we typically start numbering them from the most downstream waterfall and then increase as we go upstream.

At the trailhead, there are several trails.  You want the trail with the Blue Medallion labeled "To Berry Pond, Guard Help Way". Go about 100 yards and the trail will take a sharp left turn.  Just a few yards after the left turn, there will be a path on the right that leads downhill to a picnic table.  Take this path.

Continue past the picnic table and in about 50 yards you will come to a small pond that is dammed up.  Continue past the pond down the dirt road for about another 50 yards and pick an opening in the wooded area on the left to walk toward West Brook.  If you get to a building, you went too far.  

There is no path to follow, but the brook is only about 30-40 yards from the road and is pretty easy to walk through.  Once you get next to the stream you may notice a path that runs along side the stream.  Be careful in this area, West Brook is in a very steep gorge at this point so be extra careful as you work your way into position to view and photograph the falls.  Depending on the path you took to get from the road to the brook, you may come out right at the falls or just above it, but you should be able to see it regardless.  Just downstream from the falls I found a place where I could get down to the brook.  This drop is approximately 20-25' tall.

West Brook empties into Lake George.  The water from this then flows through La Chute into Lake Champlain.  The flow then goes north through Canada on the Richelieu River and empties into the St. Lawrence River.

Last update:  October 28, 2026

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