Cascades

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 (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

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