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WaterfallHikes.com
Waterfall hikes with live stream flow and LiDAR terrain
Explore waterfall hikes across the US and Canada with live stream-gauge data, 7-day flow outlooks, trail guides, 3D terrain, and alerts when nearby waterfalls are running high.
Hi Product Hunt. I'm Armen, a software developer in Colorado.
I kept driving an hour to a waterfall and finding a wet rock. A waterfall is only as good as the stream feeding it, and most hiking sites list it as if it never changes.
So I built one page per waterfall that pulls together data that was scattered across a lot of places: USGS and Water Survey of Canada stream gauges, NPS and USFS trail records, and USGS LiDAR. Each page has:
- Current flow from the nearest stream gauge, and whether it's above or below normal for the month
- A 7-day flow outlook with the best day to go
- Trail length, difficulty, and directions to the trailhead
- A LiDAR terrain portrait and a 3D view of the terrain around the falls (US only for now)
- A nightly estimate of whether it's frozen, for winter ice hikes
You can also sign up to get an email when the waterfalls near your city are running high.
Two things I learned building it. Rainbow Falls is the most common waterfall name in the US, used 26 times. And about ten different "Buttermilk Falls" in New York all listed the same 5 ft height, copied from the one in Ithaca. The LiDAR data is how I caught it.
It's free and needs no account. For developers there's an embeddable widget, a JSON API, and an MCP server so AI assistants can query it.
What would help me most: tell me about a waterfall you know that's missing or wrong. I fix reader corrections by hand.
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“Waterfall hikes with live stream flow and LiDAR terrain”
WaterfallHikes.com was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #81 on the daily leaderboard. Explore waterfall hikes across the US and Canada with live stream-gauge data, 7-day flow outlooks, trail guides, 3D terrain, and alerts when nearby waterfalls are running high.
WaterfallHikes.com was featured in Travel (42.7k followers), YouTube (17k followers), Outdoors (7.7k followers) and Hiking (667 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 20.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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