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 260 feet in height, making Kaaterskill Falls one of the highest waterfalls in New York, and one of the Eastern United States' tallest waterfalls.
Kaaterskill Falls from below
Winslow Homer - Under the Falls, Catskill Mountains - Brooklyn Museum
The Falls in winter
Durand's Kindred Spirits, with the falls in the background.
Catskill Mountains
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The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province and subrange of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York. As a cultural and geographic region, the Catskills are generally defined as those areas close to or within the borders of the Catskill Park, a 700,000-acre (2,800 km2) forest preserve protected from many forms of development under New York state law.
Slide Mountain and nearby peaks as seen from Twin Mountain in the northern Catskills
Views of the Catskills from the Hudson like this led to the name "Blue Mountains" for a time.
Free-floating tubers on Esopus Creek
Kaaterskill Falls on Spruce Creek near Palenville, New York. One of the higher falls in New York. Two separate falls total 260 ft (79 m).