Cascades or The Cascades may refer to: * Cascades, a series of

waterfall A waterfall is a point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf. Waterfalls can be formed in severa ...

Places

North America

Cascades (ecoregion) The Cascades ecoregion is a Level III ecoregion designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, and California. Somewhat smaller than the Cascade mountain range for which it is nam ...

, which includes much of the mountain range *

Cascades (conservation area) Cascades (conservation area) is an area in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests of western Virginia, United States, that has been recognized by the Wilderness Society as a special place worthy of protection from logging and road ...

, a wildland in western Virginia *

Cascades, Virginia Cascades is a census-designated place (CDP) in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 United States Census was 11,912. Along with nearby Countryside and Lowes Island, it is considered one of the three main componen ...

, a census-designated place *

Cascades Park (Tallahassee) Cascades Park is a park along the stream known as the St. Augustine Branch in Tallahassee, Florida, south of the Florida State Capitol. It is a Nationally Registered Historic Place because it influenced the territorial government's choice of the ...

, a park in Florida * Cascade Range or Cascades, a mountain range in the Pacific Northwest of North America **

Cascades Rapids The Cascades Rapids (sometimes called Cascade Falls or Cascades of the Columbia) were an area of rapids along North America's Columbia River, between the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. Through a stretch approximately wide, the river ...

or "Cascade Falls", an area of rapids in the Columbia River in Oregon *

Cascade Volcanoes The Cascade Volcanoes (also known as the Cascade Volcanic Arc or the Cascade Arc) are a number of volcanoes in a volcanic arc in western North America, extending from southwestern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern Cali ...

, a geological grouping of volcanoes, including those in the Cascade Range and some in the Coast Mountains *

Fort Cascades Fort Cascades was a United States Army fort constructed in 1855 to protect the portage road around the final section of the Cascades Rapids, known as the "lower cascades." It was built on the Washington side of the Columbia River, between the ...

, a US Army fort in what is now Washington state (1855-1861) * "The Cascades", a series of ten waterfalls on Monkman Creek in the Northern Rockies of British Columbia, Canada, including Monkman Falls

Elsewhere

* Cascades, Hong Kong (), a housing estate *

Cascades, Tasmania Cascades is a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of ...

, Australia, a suburb of Hobart *

Cascades Region Cascades is one of Burkina Faso's 13 administrative regions. It was created on 2 July 2001. The population of Cascades was 812,062 in 2019. It is the second least populous region in Burkina Faso and contains 3.96% of all Burkinabé. The region's ...

, a region in Burkina Faso *

Yerevan Cascade The Cascade ( hy, Կասկադ, ''Kaskad'') is a giant stairway made of limestone in Yerevan, Armenia. It links the downtown Kentron area of Yerevan with the Monument neighborhood ( Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun districts). Designed by architects ...

, a huge limestone stairway in Yerevan, Armenia

Businesses

* Cascades (company), a paper and packaging company headquartered in Quebec, Canada *

Cascades Shopping Centre Cascades Shopping Centre is an enclosed shopping centre in the city centre of Portsmouth on the South Coast of England. It has a wide range of High Street retailers, and its own multi-storey car park connecting straight into the malls by lifts ...

, Portsmouth, UK

Music

Groups

* Ronnie & the Hi-Lites, a group originally called The Cascades * Seattle Cascades Drum and Bugle Corps, a DCI-affiliated junior drum and bugle corps * The Cascades (band), a 1960s pop group

Albums and songs

* ''Cascades'' (EP), by Jean-Michel Blais and CFCF * ''Cascades'' (Marilyn Crispell album), and title track, 1995 * "Cascades", a song by Metric from '' Pagans in Vegas'' * "Cascades: I'm not your lover", a song from English rock band Deep Purple * "The Cascades" (rag), a 1904 ragtime composition by

Scott Joplin Scott Joplin ( 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Because of the fame achieved for his ragtime compositions, he was dubbed the "King of Ragtime." During his career, he wrote over 40 original ragtime pieces, one r ...

* "The Cascades", a Fleet Foxes song on '' Helplessness Blues'' (2011)

Rail transportation

Amtrak Cascades The Amtrak ''Cascades'' is a passenger train corridor in the Pacific Northwest, operated by Amtrak in partnership with the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. It is named after the Cascade mountain range that the route parallels. The corri ...

, a US passenger train route * Cascades MAX Station, a light rail station, Portland, Oregon, US * Cascades Railroad, a defunct short railroad in Washington state, US

Other uses

* Cascades, Isle of Dogs, a building in London, England * Cascades FC, a Tasmanian soccer club from 1931 to 1936 *

Cascades Female Factory The Cascades Female Factory, a former Australian workhouse for female convicts in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, is located in Hobart, Tasmania. Operational between 1828 and 1856, the factory is now one of the 11 sites that collec ...

, a former Australian workhouse for female convicts in Hobart, Tasmania * Oregon State University Cascades Campus, a branch campus in Bend, Oregon, US * The Cascades, a terminus of the

Los Angeles Aqueduct The Los Angeles Aqueduct system, comprising the Los Angeles Aqueduct (Owens Valley aqueduct) and the Second Los Angeles Aqueduct, is a water conveyance system, built and operated by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The Owens Valle ...

, US