Near the New York - Canada border. Shot in September of 2010 with a Nikon COOLPIX P100 in High Definition. Ausable Chasm is a sandstone gorge tourist attraction located near Keeseville, New York. 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. Just after the last Ice Age (Pleistocene) and 15000+ years in the making... there was a chasm. Before the first flight at Kitty Hawk... Before the first World War... Before there were theme parks and roller coasters... Before the Winter Olympic Games were created... there was Ausable Chasm. 22 years before the Adirondack Park was established (1892)...62 years before the first Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid (1932)...110 years before the Winter Olympic Games returned when many witnessed the Miracle on Ice (1980)...and just five years after the end of the American Civil War ...there was Ausable Chasm. Since 1870, Ausable Chasm has thrilled and amazed all who have come to explore. More than 10 million visitors have witnessed what mother nature has provided: a uniquely-carved, vertical-walled canyon made of 500 million year old rock! As one of the earliest and oldest ...
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