Kaaterskill Creek
is a
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, accessed October 3, 2011 tributary of
Catskill Creek in
Greene and
Ulster
Ulster (; or ; or ''Ulster'') is one of the four traditional or historic provinces of Ireland, Irish provinces. It is made up of nine Counties of Ireland, counties: six of these constitute Northern Ireland (a part of the United Kingdom); t ...
counties in
New York. Via Catskill Creek, it is part of the
Hudson River
The Hudson River, historically the North River, is a river that flows from north to south largely through eastern New York (state), New York state. It originates in the Adirondack Mountains at Henderson Lake (New York), Henderson Lake in the ...
watershed.
Kaaterskill Creek rises in the town of
Hunter
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within the
Catskill Forest Preserve, northwest of the village of
Tannersville. It flows south to the hamlet of
Haines Falls, where it turns east and drops precipitously into
Kaaterskill Clove, paralleled by
New York Route 23A and receiving Spruce Creek from the north, which drops over
Kaaterskill Falls
Kaaterskill Falls is a two-stage waterfall on Spruce Creek (Kaaterskill Creek tributary), Spruce Creek in the eastern Catskill Mountains of New York (state), New York, between the Hamlet (place)#New York, hamlets of Haines Falls, New York, Haines ...
. Kaaterskill Creek exits the mountains at the hamlet of
Palenville and takes a zigzag course, crossing back and forth between Greene and Ulster counties, before finally turning northeast and flowing to its mouth at Catskill Creek near
Cauterskill, New York, just west of the village of
Catskill.
See also
*
List of rivers of New York
References
Rivers of New York (state)
Rivers of Greene County, New York
Tributaries of the Hudson River
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