Catskill Escarpment
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The Catskill Escarpment, often referred to locally as just the Escarpment or the Great Wall of Manitou, and known as the Catskill Front to geologists, is the range forming the northeastern corner of t
The Escarpment as seen from Rhinebeck, across the Hudson River
View from Overlook, showing (from right) Plattekill Mountain, Kaaterskill High Peak, and Blackhead Range
Northern Escarpment
Platte Clove, carved out of the Escarpment by glaciers
Kaaterskill Falls
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Kaaterskill Falls is a two-stage waterfall on Spruce Creek in the eastern Catskill Mountains of New York, between the hamlets of Haines Falls and Palenville in Greene County. The two cascades total 26
Catskill Escarpment
…largest of its three breaks. It carries NY 23A through the Escarpment to the towns of Haines Falls, Tannersville and Hunter. Along its northern side is Kaaterskill Falls, one of the Catskills' oldest tourist attractions. Above Kaaterskill Clove rises South Mountain, after which the ridge levels to North-South Lake, the…
Kaaterskill Falls from below
Winslow Homer - Under the Falls, Catskill Mountains - Brooklyn Museum
The Falls in winter
Kaaterskill Falls by Thomas Cole, 1826