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

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, Tallahassee, Florida, south of the Florida State Capitol. It is a National Register of Historic Places, Nationally Registered Historic Place becau ...

, a park in Florida *

Cascade Range The Cascade Range or Cascades is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California. It includes both non-volcanic mountains, such as the North Cascades, ...

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, a geological grouping of volcanoes, including those in the Cascade Range and some in the Coast Mountains * Fort Cascades, 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 Monkman Falls is a waterfall on Monkman Creek in the Northern Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. It is one of a series of ten waterfalls on Monkman Creek known as "the Cascades". It is named for Alexander Monkman, a fur trader then based in th ...

Elsewhere

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

Cascades, Tasmania Cascades is a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is immediately west of the city centre, in the foothills of Mount Wellington. It is the location of the Cascade Brewery Cascade Brewery is a brewery established in 1824 in South ...

, Australia, a suburb of Hobart * Cascades Region, a region in Burkina Faso * Yerevan Cascade, 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 Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal music, heavy metal and modern hard rock music, but their musical style has changed over the course of its existence. Ori ...

* "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 ra ...

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

Rail transportation

* Amtrak Cascades, 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 collective ...

, 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 Valley ...

, US