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Natural Stone Bridge Falls

Directions

From I-87's exit 26, get on US 9 north.  About 1/2 mile north of where US 9 passes under I-87, Natural Stone Bridge Road will exit on the left.  This road will terminate in about 2.4 miles at the Natural Stone Bridge & Caves parking area.

County: Warren
Town: Chester
USGS Map: Chestertown
Waterway: Trout Brook
Latitude: N 43° 44' 51"
Longitude: W 73° 51' 08"
Drop: 15'
Type: Curtain cascade
Region: Off US 9 near Pottersville
Parking: Unpaved lot
Trail type: Dirt
Length of hike: 0.5 mile
Difficulty: Easy
Accessibility: Commercial attraction
Name: Common

Chester Quadrangle

There are several waterfalls located in the Natural Stone Bridge & Caves commercial attraction.  The first one you will see is on the right just before reaching the parking lot.  There is a man-made waterfall and pond at the entrance to the facility.

Once you enter the gift shop area and pay your admission fee ($12.98 plus tax for adults in 2013), you proceed on a self-guided tour of the grounds.  As a commercial attraction, it is only open during specified hours, days and times of the year.  The grounds are not accessible when they are closed.

They promote the stone bridge arch here as "the LARGEST marble cave entrance in the east".  There are many things to do at this attraction.  In addition to their gift shop, you can mine for rocks, crystals and gems.  There are also climbing walls.  During July and August, you can take a guided adventure tour of what they call "a real cave crawl and float experience".  We were especially intrigued by the fact that this location has been owned by the same family for over 200 years!  An ancestor was granted this land for his service in the American Revolution.

In addition to the man-made falls, there are several more waterfalls on the grounds.  The first one you will come to is the Sawmill Site Falls, a curtain cascade of about fifteen feet.  This is the main waterfall at this facility.  Just downstream from here, the channel splits around Meditation Isle.  River right goes through a long slide while the left branch is a narrow cascade.  Just downstream of this, the brook splits three ways.  On the right side of the channel, the water plunges into an area called Noisy Cave as it begins its descent underground.  To the left of this, the middle branch drops into a gorge and then into an area call the Lost Pool Cave. On the left side of the brook, water flows through the entrance of the Natural Stone Bridge.  A cascade is formed here as this descends below the ground.  On the left side of this entrance, there is a section called Fiddlestring Falls.  One of the information stations tell you that for over 100 years, strings of water have been falling from the Natural Stone Bridge.  In 2006, this suddenly changed and now the water comes down the face of the bridge, forming iron deposits on the surface. 

None of the waterfalls in this facility are officially named.  The owner told us that even the brook was once called Natural Stone Bridge Creek but that was changed some one hundred years ago.

The Trout Brook flows into the Schroon River just south of Pottersville and Schroon Lake.  This then empties into the Hudson River just south of Warrensburg.  The Hudson flows into the Atlantic Ocean in New York City.

Last update:  October 12, 2016

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