10 Most Beautiful Places in
New Jersey
Photographs and
text by Walter Choroszewski
 The Great
Falls, Paterson, Passaic County
Within the heart of Paterson lie the
spectacular Great Falls, the center around which this
manufacturing city was built. Created from the outflow of
the ancient glacial Passaic Lake, this plunging 77-foot
cataract in the Passaic River's path to the sea is one of
the largest waterfalls east of the Mississippi. I've
photographed the Great Falls from many angles and all
possible vantage points, and I am always entranced by the
visual contrast between the powerful moving water and its
solid brown-rock framework. The falls are especially
dynamic after a long period of rain, when the river is
high and the water is abundant and thunderous.
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