Ausable Chasm, New York
Ausable Chasm is a locale in two counties in New York State, Clinton County and Essex County. It exists along US 9 and it runs from the area around County Road 373 southwest toward the intersection of US 9 and Chasm Road. It is directly due west of Port Kent, New York and northeast of Keeseville, New York.
Geological formation
Ausable Chasm is also the name for a sandstone gorge tourist attraction. The Ausable River runs through it, which then empties into Lake Champlain.
The gorge is about two miles long, and is a minor tourist attraction in the Adirondacks region of Upstate New York. It is called by some, the "Grand Canyon of the East", and is fed by the Rainbow Falls, at its southern extreme.
The chasm has a continuous exposure of a section of the Potsdam Sandstone more than 160 metres (520 ft) thick, which includes a rare, mid-cambrian jellyfish fossil.[1]
- Pictures from 1907 postcards
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Lookout Point
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Rainbow Falls
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Hotel Ausable Chasm
Cultural attractions
- North Star Underground Railroad Museum, commemorating the Underground Railroad, operated by the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association is on Mace Chasm Road in Ausable Chasm, on County Route 71, south of the junction of County Route 373 and U.S. 9.
References
- ↑ James W. Hagadorn and Edward S. Belt (2008), Stranded in Upstate New York: Cambrian Scyphomedusae from the Potsdam Sandstone, Palaios, v. 23, p. 424–441, doi:10.2110/palo.2006.p06-104r
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Coordinates: 44°31′45″N 73°27′40″W / 44.52917°N 73.46111°W