Waterfall on Wiscoy Creek

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I was mapping Mills Mills falls and Wiscoy Falls and saw this on the topo and Satellite images, it looks like a falls... I don't see anything about it.
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It sure looks like a falls. What is that road on the bottom left? And is that Wiscoy Creek? If I knew what some of those landmarks were I may know if its a falls I've been to or not. If its not, it might be something worth investigating! :D
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It is Wiscoy creek and the road is Armison Rd. Look like a drop of about 10 feet acording to the topo info.
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aha! Now I see exaclty where that is in my Gazeteer. Just downstream from Mills Mills Falls. (which isn't a natural falls - manmade, if I remember right) We were there about 3 years ago and downstream looked like a promising creekwalk but there were very serious looking Posted, No Tresspassing signs at the obvious place where you'd enter in to start walking downstream... so we didn't. I suppose it would be worth going back there to see if there's a name and address on those signs and asking permission. I've had success just asking before. Its worth a try.

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This waterfall is on private land and the owner must be contacted for access.
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Beautiful Falls, if you hike to the top there's also a 40' high dam which has water cascading over creating a manmade 40' falls. You can't see it from the road. The water actually hurts if you try to get beneath it. There's also a couple of water created potholes about 15' in diameter and about 15' deep that you can jump off a ledge into. The last time I went alot of people were doing it. I did it 2x. The first time I didn't even touch the bottom! The second time I did barely, so I'm just estimating the depth. I got talked into jumping. Locals were diving head first but not me. When you get to the edge of the hole it's only 1' deep.
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It's off of Rt 19A below Letchworth State Park and is worth the drive. I didn't see a way to hike on land but I think you can go up the stream bed. This shot was taken from the bridge.

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