Haines Falls, New York

Haines Falls is a hamlet (and census-designated place)[1] located east of Tannersville in the Town of Hunter, in Greene County, New York, United States.

[4] The hamlet of Haines Falls was always a mountain resort town, unlike Hunter and Palenville which had tanneries.

In 1825, Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School 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.