📍Totman Gulf Falls, Adams NY 4k

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This waterfall is a very pretty and easy to access location. From the parking pull-off, you can actually see the waterfall from within a few feet of your vehicle. On the north side of the road, which is dirt at this point, there is a flat area that juts out toward the gorge. As you approach the edge the falls will be in view on the other side. Use caution here. It is a very steep drop!
The trailhead will be obvious just west of the pull-off. You will walk down a grade for 0.1 mile and then the trail hooks a sharp right and continues to the creek level. It is a gentle walk, although it is a bit more strenuous coming back out! The vertical drop is about 90 feet.
Fox Creek is the waterway flowing through this gorge. The waterfall is technically not on this creek. It is on an unnamed stream emptying into the Fox Creek that traces its source a little less than two miles east of here, just west of the hamlet of Lorraine.
This area is part of the Jefferson County Forest and Wildlife Management Area. It is publicly accessible but we would urge visitors to be more respectful than some who have been there previously. There is evidence of a lot of trash that was left behind by disrespectful guests!
This area has apparently been a popular recreation/hiking location for locals for many years. We have talked with several people who either live in the area or grew up there who said they always knew the area as Mooney Gulf. In fact, many maps and decades old topographical quadrangles identify this as Totman Gulf, which is on the north side of Lemay Road. Mooney Gulf is an area no more than 1/4 mile south of here, between Lemay Road and the Comstock Road. Several sources have told us that there are no waterfalls in the Mooney Gulf and this is the only on in the Totman Gulf.
Fox Creek flows into the South Sandy Creek which empties into Lake Ontario just north of the Jefferson/oswego County Line.