Ausable Chasm (New York) - Keesville NY
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nomadwillie
N 44° 31.423 W 073° 27.646
18T E 622315 N 4931195
Ausable Chasm is a sandstone gorge and tourist attraction located in the village of Keeseville, New York, U.S.
Waymark Code: WMT2AA
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 09/13/2016
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Geologically, the gorge is fairly simple. The Ausable River carved a gorge a little over a mile long (~2 km) down through the 500-million-years-old Cambrian-Period Potsdam Sandstone since the end of the Pleistocene Epoch ice age around 10,000 years ago. The headward erosion of ancestral Rainbow Falls led to its location today near the visitor's center
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For years this has been a destination spot for motorcycle riders in New England. While I have covered almost all of the northeast on a motorcycle, somehow I had missed the Chasm. This time I made it a specific destination and it was well worth it.