Highland Falls
Highland Falls, formerly named Buttermilk Falls, is a village in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 3,684 at the 2020 census. The village was founded in 1906.Photo: Alexisrael, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 3,680 residents
- Description: village in Orange County, New York, United States
- Also known as: “Buttermilk Falls”, “Highland Falls, New York”, and “Highland Falls, NY”
- Postal code: 10928
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Mark’s Baptist Church and Sugarloaf Hill.
St. Mark’s Baptist Church
Church
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St. Mark's Baptist Church, formerly known as Methodist Episcopal Church of Highland Falls, is a historic Baptist church located in the village of Highland Falls, Orange County, New York.
Sugarloaf Hill
Peak
Sugarloaf Hill is a 785 ft peak along the Hudson River in Putnam County, New York, part of the Hudson Highlands. It was named by the Dutch for its resemblance in outline to a sugarloaf when sailing up the river towards it.
Thayer Hotel
Hotel building
Photo: Dmadeo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Thayer Hotel is a 151-room "Historic Hotel of America" property located 50 miles north of New York City on the banks of the Hudson River at 674 Thayer Road in West Point, New York on the campus of the United States Military Academy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Garrison and Fort Montgomery.
Garrison
Hamlet
Garrison is a hamlet in Putnam County, New York, United States. It is part of the town of Philipstown, on the east side of the Hudson River, across from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Fort Montgomery
Village
Fort Montgomery is a hamlet in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 1,627 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh metropolitan area as well as the larger New York metropolitan area. Fort Montgomery is situated 3 miles southwest of Highland Falls.
Cold Spring
Photo: DanTD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cold Spring is a village in Putnam County in the state of New York in the United States of America. Its location in the scenic Hudson Highlands and proximity to a commuter railroad makes it a popular weekend escape from New York City.
Highland Falls
- Categories: village of New York and locality
- Location: Highlands, Orange County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.36926° or 41° 22′ 9″ northLongitude
-73.96625° or 73° 57′ 59″ westPopulation
3,680Elevation
144 feet (44 metres)United Nations Location Code
US HF2Open location code
87H8929M+PFOpenStreetMap ID
node 158843530OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Highland Falls” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هايلاند فالس”
- Basque: “Highland Falls”
- Catalan: “Highland Falls”
- Cebuano: “Highland Falls”
- Chinese: “海蘭佛斯”
- Chinese: “海蘭福爾斯”
- Chinese: “纽约州海兰瀑布”
- Danish: “Highland Falls”
- Dutch: “Highland Falls”
- French: “Highland Falls”
- Galician: “Highland Falls, Nova York”
- Galician: “Highland Falls”
- German: “Highland Falls”
- Gilaki: “هایلند فالز (نيۊیؤرک)”
- Gilaki: “هایلند فالز”
- Haitian: “Highland Falls, New York”
- Haitian: “Highland Falls”
- Hebrew: “היילנד פולס”
- Irish: “Highland Falls”
- Italian: “Highland Falls”
- Ladin: “Highland Falls”
- Luxembourgish: “Highland Falls”
- Malagasy: “Highland Falls, New York”
- Malagasy: “Highland Falls”
- Mazanderani: “هایلند فالز (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “هایلند فالز”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Highland Falls”
- Polish: “Highland Falls”
- Russian: “Хайленд-Фолс”
- Serbian: “Хајланд Фолс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Highland Falls, New York”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Highland Falls”
- Spanish: “Highland Falls (Nueva York)”
- Spanish: “Highland Falls”
- Swedish: “Highland Falls”
- Tagalog: “Highland Falls”
- Turkish: “Highland Falls”
- Ukrainian: “Гайленд-Фоллс”
- Urdu: “ہائی لینڈ فالز، نیو یارک”
- Volapük: “Highland Falls, New York”
- Volapük: “Highland Falls”
- Welsh: “Highland Falls, Efrog Newydd”
- Welsh: “Highland Falls”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Glenclyffe and Fort Putnam.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Highlands Town Hall and Highland Falls Post Office.
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