The Watchung Mountains are a group of three long low ridges of volcanic origin, between 400 and 500 feet high, lying parallel to each other in northern New Jersey in the United States. The name is der
Garret Mountain and Mount Cecchino seen from High Mountain in Wayne, New Jersey
Trees in the Watchung Reservation between the first and second ridges near Summit and Mountainside
Water flows over a trap rock surface in the Watchungs
An ancient lava front in the Watchungs bearing embedded agate and quartz nodules
The Palisades, also called the New Jersey Palisades or the Hudson River Palisades, are a line of steep cliffs along the west side of the lower Hudson River in Northeastern New Jersey and Southeastern
Watchung Mountains
…mountains. Later treaties moved the boundary to the top of the mountain, to include the springs. The Watchungs are basalt uplifts, geologically similar to the Palisades along the Hudson River. In many places, however, the mountains have become sinuous islands of natural landscape within the suburban sprawl covering…
The cliffs of the Palisades as seen from the Ross Dock Picnic Area in Palisades Interstate Park
Atop the Hudson Palisades in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, overlooking the Hudson River, the George Washington Bridge, and the skyscrapers of Midtown Manhattan, New York City
Palisades as seen from West 187th Street and Chittenden Avenue in Washington Heights, Manhattan.
The Palisades, with fall foliage. On the left is the George Washington Bridge. A controversial plan to build a high-rise that would have broken the tree line was proposed, and later modified, by LG Electronics.