Scajaquada Creek
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The Scajaquada Creek is a small river located in western New York, USA. It is entirely within Erie County. The name is derived from the Seneca leader Red Jacket.
Scajaquada Creek flows through the City of Buffalo before it empties into the Niagara River through part of the Erie Canal known as the Black Rock Canal. Much of the flow through the city is through underground culverts, installed in response to the polluted creek's foul smell. While the creek had once included Hoyt Lake in Delaware Park, today the creek bypasses the lake through a culvert on the lake's south shore. The creek also flows through the Forest Lawn cemetery, adjacent to Delaware Park, where Serenity Falls is the only natural waterfall in Buffalo.
The length of the stream is 13 miles, and it drains a small watershed of 29 square miles. Scajaquada Creek rises in the Town of Lancaster in Erie County, east of Buffalo. The creek passes through most of the way across the Town of Cheektowaga before it is diverted into an underground culvert.
The creek loans its name to the Scajaquada Expressway, New York State Route 198, which follows the same route for a short distance.
Buffalo State College, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Buffalo Historical Society overlook Scajaquada Creek.
