Cascades Explained

Cascades or The Cascades may refer to:

• Cascades, a series of waterfalls

Places

North America

• Cascades (ecoregion), which includes much of the mountain range
• Cascades (conservation area), a wildland in western Virginia
• Cascades, Virginia, a census-designated place
• Cascades Park (Tallahassee), a park in Florida
• Cascade Range or Cascades, a mountain range in the Pacific Northwest of North America
  • Cascades Rapids 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

Elsewhere

• Cascades, Hong Kong (Chinese: 欣圖軒), a housing estate
• Cascades, Tasmania, 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, 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
• "The Cascades" (rag), a 1904 ragtime composition by Scott Joplin
• "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, 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, US

See also

• Cascade (disambiguation)