Haines Falls is a

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play (the ...

(and census-designated place) located east of Tannersville in the Town of Hunter, in

Greene County, New York Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 47,931. Its county seat is Catskill. The county's name is in honor of the American Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. The c ...

, United States. Haines Falls is located at . The hamlet of Haines Falls was always a

mountain resort A mountain resort is a place to holiday or vacation located in an elevated and typically at least relatively isolated area. The term resort implies integral hotel or inn accommodations, restaurants, and either or both sports facilities or sceni ...

town, unlike Hunter and Palenville which had tanneries. Haines Falls is at the head of

Kaaterskill Clove Kaaterskill Clove is a deep gorge, or valley, in New York's eastern Catskill Mountains, lying just west of the village of Palenville and in Haines Falls. The clove was formed by Kaaterskill Creek, a tributary of Catskill Creek rising west of No ...

and is the former site of the

Catskill Mountain House The Catskill Mountain House, which opened in 1824, was a famous hotel near Palenville, New York, and in the Catskill Mountains overlooking the Hudson River Valley. In its prime, from the 1850s to the turn of the century, it was visited by th ...

, Kaaterskill Hotel, and Laurel House which sat atop the famous Kaaterskill Falls. In 1825,

Thomas Cole Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for hi ...

, founder of the

Hudson River School The Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. Early on, the paintings typically depicted the Hudson River Valley and the sur ...

of landscape painters, did his first Catskill mountain paintings in Haines Falls: '' Lake with Dead Trees'' at South Lake and the Kaaterskill Falls. Major highways in Haines Falls include State Route 23A, Clum Hill Road, North Lake Road, and County Route 25. Horseshoe Bend is the location of many vehicle accidents and hikers who tumble off the falls.

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High Peaks Hiking in Hunter Area
Catskill 3500 Club
Town of Hunter Government Website and Area InformationTown of Hunter Chamber of CommerceOnline Guide to the Catskill MountainsThe Catskill Archive - history of the Catskill Mtns.Hunter Public LibraryMountain Top LibraryMountain Top Historical Society
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