Waterfall Hikes Near New Brunswick, NJ

New Brunswick's page lists seven falls, and the best known is the Great Falls of the Passaic in Paterson, about 32 miles north, a 77-foot drop through basalt beside the mills of what the Park Service calls America's first planned industrial city. Closer in, Maple Falls is a seasonal cascade on the Lenape Trail in South Mountain Reservation, about 18 miles north, and Pottersville Falls sits on the Lamington River about 23 miles northwest. Scudders Falls, 28 miles southwest near Ewing, is a stretch of rapids on the Delaware rather than a single drop, with a view of it from the D&R Canal towpath. The Buttermilk Falls on this list is a roadside cascade of about 30 feet off Buttermilk Falls Road in Warwick, New York, about 40 miles north, not the tall Buttermilk Falls in the Delaware Water Gap.