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Rondout Creek, New York

13.6 mapped river miles, draining 361 square miles, in the Rondout basin watershed. A USGS gauge stands in it, but its record is too short for a measured July mean, so what this page knows about its temperature is today's reading and NYSDEC's classification of the water itself.

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Public land — where the bank is open to walk and fish
USGS gauge — live water temperature
Water temperature — the colour of the river, and of every dot on it

50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands, breaking at 58, 64 and 70°F, that the app paints. Grey is water nobody has measured.

The nearest live reading

The nearest gauge is 8.0 miles away, at Rondout Creek — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today. A closer gauge has stopped reporting — it has sent no water temperature for 699 days, since 29 October 2024, so no number here comes from it.

65.8 °F
Rondout Creek
8.0 mi away · 486 cfs · read 30 Sep, 10:15 pm ET
Cool

Thermal classification

NYSDEC's classification of this water, reach by reach. A class, not a temperature — no July mean, because none was measured here.

Reach Typed miles Band NYSDEC type
RM 13.6–0.0 29.7 cold —

NYSDEC has classified 29.7 of the 71 miles NHD carries for this stream — 42% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, cold. The untyped reaches are not warm water — they are water NYSDEC's inventory does not reach, and the mile ranges above span only the reaches it does.

Questions about this river

NYSDEC classification

NYSDEC classifies this water as Class A — drinking water source, Class AA — drinking water source, Class B — swimming and contact recreation, and Class C — fishing. More than one class appears because the classification changes along the river. The thermal bar above shows where. On those reaches DEC also designates it trout spawning waters, trout waters — which is the half of the classification that is about temperature, and the half this map paints by. The class is a designation of best usage under 6 NYCRR — what the water is protected for — and not the season and creel rules, which change yearly and live with the agency.

NYSDEC water quality classifications and standards →

Access

8 mapped NYSDEC access sites within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: Rondout Creek Angler Parking (RM 6.9), Rondout Creek Angler Parking (RM 6.6), Rondout Creek Angler Parking (RM 6.6), Rondout Creek Angler Parking (RM 6.4), Rondout Creek Angler Parking (RM 6.2), Rondout Creek Angler Parking (RM 6.1), Rondout Creek Angler Parking (RM 6.0), Rondout Creek Angler Parking (RM 5.3). 8 walk-in, 0 boat or canoe launches.

Public land on the river

5 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 51,677 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Unit Owner Acres
Rondout Creek — State Land, Fishing Access NYSDEC 239
Slide Mountain Wilderness state conservation department 50,723
Rondout Fishing Access Area city land 457
North Side city land 228
Jerry Scanna Memorial Little League Field local holder not recorded 30

Species

NYSDEC designates this as trout water — Trout spawning waters, Trout waters — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.

Tributaries and watershed

7 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.

Rondout Creek sits in HUC 8 02020007, the Rondout basin, and drains 361 square miles, Strahler order 6 at the mouth. 147 NHD reaches carry the name for 70.6 miles in total — more than the 13.6 miles of drawn mainstem, because NHD counts side channels and braids as their own reaches.

Other water nearby

The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.