Seton Falls Park

Seton Falls Park is a 36-acre nature park in the Edenwald section of the northeastern Bronx, centered on a waterfall along a tributary of the Hutchinson River. The park preserves a heavily wooded landscape with dramatic ravines, stream courses, and mature forest that provide a wilderness-like experience in an urban setting.

The park's waterfall, while modest in scale, is one of the few natural waterfalls remaining within New York City. The stream's course through a rocky ravine creates a picturesque setting that has attracted visitors since the 19th century.

The park's forest includes mature hardwoods, understory plants, and a diverse community of birds and small mammals. The woodland habitat connects to other natural areas in the northeastern Bronx, creating a corridor of green space that supports wildlife movement through the urban landscape.

Seton Falls Park takes its name from the Seton family, early landowners in the area. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first native-born American saint of the Catholic Church, had family connections to this part of the Bronx, though the park's naming likely refers to other members of the Seton family.

Seton Falls Park provides the kind of wild, unstructured nature experience that is increasingly rare within city limits: a place where the sound of a waterfall replaces the sound of traffic, and where the forest canopy creates a world apart from the surrounding streets.