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Copake Falls is located along Bashbish Brook at the western foot of the Taconic Mountains, a range that runs along the New York-Massachusetts border.The Copake Falls area of Taconic State Park, with campsites and hiking trails, is directly east of the hamlet, and Bash Bish Falls, the highest waterfall in Massachusetts, is located 2 miles (3 km) to the east via New York State Route 344.
Bash Bish Falls is located in Massachusetts, across the border from the Copake Falls Area and accessible via a short path from the trailhead in New York. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Harlem Valley Rail Trail is a paved bicycle and pedestrian path, partly completed, that will run 46 miles (74 km) from Wassaic to Chatham, New York .
The Taconic State Parkway (often called the Taconic or the TSP) is a 104.12-mile (167.56 km) limited-access parkway between Kensico Dam and Chatham, the longest in the U.S. state of New York. It follows a generally north–south route midway between the Hudson River and the Connecticut and Massachusetts state lines, much of its upper section ...
NY 344 was assigned c. 1932 to a 1.52-mile-long (2.45 km) highway extending from Copake Falls in the west to the Massachusetts state line in the east. [2] [3] At the time, NY 22 served Copake Falls directly instead of bypassing it. [3] NY 22 was rerouted to bypass Copake Falls on a new roadway to the west of the hamlet between 1947 and 1953.
Copake is a town in Columbia County, New York, United States.The population was 3,346 at the 2020 US census, [2] down from 3,615 at the 2010 census. [3] The town derives its name from a lake, which was known to the natives as Cook-pake, or Ack-kook-peek, [4] meaning "Snake Pond".
Highest point; Elevation: 1,893 ft (577 m) [citation needed] Coordinates: 1]: Geography; Location: Copake, New York and southwest Berkshire County, Massachusetts: Parent range: Taconic Mountains: Geology; Rock age: Ordovician [citation needed]: Mountain type(s): Thrust fault; metamorphic rock [citation needed]: Climbing; Easiest route: South Taconic Trail: Mount Fray, 1,893 feet (577 m), also ...
The South Taconic Trail is a 21.3 mi (34.3 km) hiking trail in the Taconic Mountains of southwest Massachusetts and adjacent New York.The trail extends from Shagroy Road in Millerton, New York, north along the ridgecrest of the southern Taconic Range and the border of New York and Massachusetts, and ends north of the Catamount Ski Area on Massachusetts Route 23 700 feet (210 m) east of the New ...
The Taconic Mountains (/ t ə ˈ k ɒ n ɪ k /) are a 150-mile-long sub-range of the Appalachian Mountains lying on the eastern border of New York State and adjacent New England. The range, which played a role in the history of geological science, is separated from the Berkshires and Green Mountains to the east by a series of valleys, principally those of the Housatonic River, Battenkill River ...