A roadside waterfall in the Catskills

Cattail Brook Falls is a roadside waterfall in Livingston Manor, a hamlet in the Catskill region of New York.

It is not well-known and not well-visited as I only learned about it through my own researching online.

There is no parking and no official trail. Just a narrow opening along the guardrail wide enough for one person to pass. There is, however, a patch of grass by the roadside wide enough for cars to park about 50 yards away.

After visiting the falls, as I was on my way out, I saw a sign on the ground near the guardrail half-buried in the dry leaves that said “private”. So, maybe the waterfall is on private land, I don’t know.

Still, I wish the place would be developed as the cascading waterfall offers plenty of dipping nooks for young and old and even toddlers alike and looked like a perfect swimming hole for a summer family outing. The road it’s on is a continuation of Main Street on Livingston Manor, a hamlet just a mile up. The way Main Street was structured IMO looked more like catering to out-of-towners than it does to locals with two gas stations, one café at least, a shop for tackle and outdoor gear, several inns with one looking rather very upscale, and small, quaint shops that altogether make for an alluring off-the-beaten-path getaway in the Catskills.