The best-known waterfalls in New York
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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Niagara is four entries on this list: Niagara Falls, Horseshoe Falls and Bridal Veil Falls are 2 km from the city of Niagara Falls, American Falls a kilometer. The rest is spread across the state: Taughannock Falls 14 km from Ithaca, Chittenango Falls 26 km from Syracuse, Pixley Falls 23 km from Rome, Eternal Flame Falls 15 km from Lackawanna, Glen Falls 5 km from Amherst. Even Brooklyn has two, Ambergill Falls and Binnen Falls, 2 km from the center.
RLQuest knows 243 named waterfalls in New York, but only 12 have a Wikipedia article; the state's 62 lighthouses and 48 forts have pages of their own. A waterfall is a quest you can plan around a gorge trail; the app checks the walk from your recorded route and adds the ravine you climbed to your map, tile by tile.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
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RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
