Waterfall Hikes Near White Plains, NY

Six waterfalls make the 50-mile list from White Plains, and the best known is across the Hudson in Paterson, New Jersey. Passaic Falls, the Great Falls of the Passaic River, drops 77 feet in the middle of the city inside Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park and can be seen from overlooks a few steps from parking. Closer to home, Rippowan Falls is in Stamford, Connecticut, about 11 miles east. To the north, Buttermilk Falls runs through Highland Falls near West Point, a village that went by the name Buttermilk Falls before 1906. Maple Falls, a seasonal cascade in South Mountain Reservation, is on a hike of about 1.4 miles round trip from the Locust Grove lot in Millburn.