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Perryville Falls

New York · height not recorded · Last verified 2026-05-15

Flow at Perryville Falls is light today (28 cfs) — visit for the geology, not the volume.

Right now

Streamflow

27.6 cfs

CHITTENANGO CREEK NEAR CHITTENANGO · 1h ago

Today

62°F

Sunny

Tonight

43°F

Partly Cloudy

Today's daylight

Sunrise 7:28 AM · Sunset 6:06 PM · 10h 38m

AQI: 31 (Good) · PM2.5 7 µg/m³

Snapshot built 9m ago. Sources: USGS · NWS BGM.

Perryville Falls, a waterfall in New York
Photo: Wikimedia Commons (see image page for full attribution)

Perryville Falls is a waterfall in Madison County, New York. Height has not been officially recorded. Access details and conditions have not yet been verified in person by Fallspots — the data on this page comes from OpenStreetMap and USGS GNIS.

Perryville Falls sits in Madison County, New York. It drops along Canaseraga Creek. The base sits at roughly 1,043 feet of elevation. Drive time is about 6 minutes from Chittenango. A trail — Link Trail — runs within 610 meters of the marked location. No public parking is recorded within 2 km, so a longer approach is likely. This is one of the more frequently visited falls in the state by our popularity model. Source records come from OpenStreetMap and USGS GNIS.

Perryville Falls is a privately owned 120–150 feet (37–46 m) tall waterfall near Perryville, New York, on the Canaseraga Creek.

Is the water flowing right now?

Most waterfall sites don't tell you this. The waterfall itself is almost never gauged, but a USGS streamgage in the same watershed can tell you whether snowmelt has started, peaked, or run dry.

30-day streamflow

Near 30-day average
2026-09-25 · low 16.7 cfstoday 28.2 cfs · avg 26 cfs

↻ Same date last year: 34.6 cfs · 82% of last year — similar

Compare to nearby falls

If this one isn't the right fit, here's how it stacks up against the closest documented falls. Every column is filterable on the site — not buried in 13,000 reviews.

WaterfallDistanceHeightTrailDogsFee
Perryville Falls (this page)—————
Chittenango Falls3 mi167 ft—YFree
Buttermilk Falls5 mi————
Edwards Falls8 mi————
Brickyard Falls9 mi————
Stockbridge Falls11 mi————

Questions visitors ask about Perryville Falls

Answers built from our structured data. If a question isn't here, the fact is unverified — we'd rather omit than guess.

How far is Perryville Falls from a major city?

Perryville Falls is 4 miles from Chittenango (about 6 minutes' drive).

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Where it is

43.0098, -75.8060

Sources and live status

Where we got the data, and where to check current conditions before you drive.

Last verified by Fallspots: 2026-05-15

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