Fall Creek is a river located in

Tompkins County, New York Tompkins County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 105,740. The county seat is Ithaca. The name is in honor of Daniel D. Tompkins, who served as Governor of New York and Vice President ...

. It flows into

Cayuga Lake Cayuga Lake (,,) is the longest of central New York's glacial Finger Lakes, and is the second largest in surface area (marginally smaller than Seneca Lake) and second largest in volume. It is just under long. Its average width is , and it is a ...

Ithaca, New York Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, Ithaca is the seat of Tompkins County and the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area. It is named a ...

Fall Creek makes its way through the campus of

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

. Beebe Lake, Triphammer Falls, and

Ithaca Falls Ithaca Falls is a waterfall located within the city of Ithaca, New York, Ithaca, New York (state), New York. It is the last of a series of waterfalls along the hanging valley formed where Fall Creek (New York), Fall Creek intersects the glacial tr ...

are some of its notable features. It empties into Cayuga Lake at Stewart Park.

References

{{authority control Rivers of Tompkins County, New York Rivers of New York (state) Rivers of Cayuga County, New York