Maine ExploreExplore TheThe HudsonHudson RiverRiver WatershedWatershed New Hampshire Any way you look at the battles between the British ★ Hudson River watershed, and Americans. Artists Mount Marcy Got the Spot! it's big. A watershed is an made its scenery world area of land that drains into famous, which inspired Follow these clues to locate the special spots on the map. Draw a line to connect a specific body of water, others to appreciate its VERMONT each clue with the matching place on the like a river, stream or lake. beauty and work to protect map. Check your answers on the back of It includes all the land, it. The opening of the Erie Lake Tear of this book. mountains, deserts, streams, Canal allowed the Hudson the Clouds cities and farms within to connect the Great Lakes Adirondack 1. This tiny lake is on Mount Marcy, New its borders. The Hudson Mountains York State's highest peak, and is the to the Atlantic Ocean. As source of the Hudson River. River watershed covers the Hudson became a busy an area as large as the shipping route, the New 2. On the Hudson River, just downstream states of Connecticut and York-New Jersey Harbor from the confluence with the Mohawk Massachusetts combined became a major port. River, boats are raised and lowered to reach Cohoes Falls a canal from the Hudson to the Great Lakes. (13,390 square miles/ 34,680 square km). From The Hudson River as we Mohawk River ★ Troy 3. This river-wide waterfall is on the its headwaters (source) know it today was mostly Hudson's largest tributary. in Lake Tear of the Clouds carved out by glaciers more Albany ★ Watershed MASSACHUSETTS 4. This high waterfall attracts hikers to high in the Adirondack than 20,000 years ago but the Catskill Mountains. Mountains, the Hudson its earliest beginnings go as gathers strength and flows 5. Railroad trains once used this 6,000 far back as 65 to 75 million Boundary foot (1829 m) long bridge; now people 315 miles (507 km), all the years. In addition to having Troy Dam and Lock Catskill walk across 200 feet (61 m) above the way to the New York-New many different habitats Mountains Hudson. Jersey Harbor. It's as deep as (places where plants and 175 feet (53 m) at World's animals usually live), NEW YORK 6. This bridge crosses one of the widest Poughkeepsie places on the Hudson River. End near West Point and as the Hudson River and its ★ CONNECTICUT wide as 3.5 miles (5.6 km) at watershed are of interest to Kaaterskill 7. The Palisades Interstate Park protects Falls Haverstraw Bay. people wherever they live. these beautiful cliffs across from Yonkers. 8. This famous lady greets ships entering Named after Henry Hudson, New York-New Jersey Harbor at the Newburgh Bay ★ mouth of the Hudson River. the first European to The Walkway explore it in 1609, the West Point ★ The Palisades Hudson is often called Get To Know The ★ Haverstraw Bay America’s River because of Hudson River Watershed its national importance. Wetlands: A wetland is 'wet land' where the soil is waterlogged all During the Revolutionary or part of the year. Wetlands capture and store water and slow its Palisades Interstate Park ★ ★ Yonkers War, it was the site of many movement. There are several types of wetlands, such as swamps, salt marshes and bogs. ★ Headwaters: Source, or beginning of the river. Jersey City ★ New York City Mouth: End of the river, where it flows into an ocean, sea or lake. Tributaries: Small rivers that flow into the main river. Confluence: The place where two or more rivers or streams meet.

Boundary: Border. istockphoto/John Archer Tappan Zee Bridge 2 Floodplain: Found alongside many rivers, these flat areas are Statue of Liberty 3 normally dry, but are underwater when water levels rise. NEW JERSEY Except as noted, photos on these pages by Steve Stanne/NYSDEC.

GLACIER: 20,000 years ago much of the Hudson Valley was covered by mile (1.6 km) Mastodons were hairy elephant-like mammals that moved into the valley as glaciers retreated. In -high ice! Glaciers helped shape the river we see today. 1999, workers in Hyde Park found a mastodon skeleton while digging out a pond.