Kaaterskill Falls

This article is about the waterfall. For the novel, see Kaaterskill Falls (novel). For the film, see Kaaterskill Falls (film).
Kaaterskill Falls
Kaaterskill Falls from below
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LocationCatskill Mountains, Hunter, New York, United States
TypeTiered
Total height260 feet (79 m)
Number of drops2
Longest drop180 feet (55 m)
WatercourseSpruce Creek

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 (79 m) in height, making Kaaterskill Falls one of the highest waterfalls in New York, and one of the Eastern United States' tallest waterfalls.

The waterfalls are one of America's oldest tourist attractions, being depicted or described by many books, essays, poems and paintings of the early 19th century. Beginning with Thomas Cole's first visit during 1825, they became a subject for painters of the Hudson River School, setting the wilderness ideal for American landscape painting. The Falls also inspired "Catterskill Falls", a poem by William Cullen Bryant.