Croton Gorge Park in Croton-on-Hudson sits below the 297-foot New Croton Dam and the Old Croton Aqueduct trail that carried the city's water.
Croton Gorge Park sits at the base of the New Croton Dam, a 297-foot masonry wall finished in 1906 that held the record for tallest dam in the world for a few years afterward. The spillway is the draw: when the reservoir is full, water sheets over the dam face loud enough to hear from the parking lot. The pedestrian bridge across the Croton River, rebuilt in 2005 to the lines of the 1905 original, gets you close enough to catch the spray on a wet spring day.
Trails off the bridge connect into the Old Croton Aqueduct, the gravity-fed tunnel dug between 1837 and 1842 to carry Croton water 41 miles to Manhattan, and offer a good long, flat walk if you head south past the park boundary.
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