Copake Falls, NY

Copake Falls is a hamlet and census-designated place in Columbia County, New York, United States. The 2020 census counted 181 residents. The CDP was designated after the 2010 census. The former Copake Falls Methodist Episcopal Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. The short version is that Copake Falls carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Copake Falls: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Copake Falls is located along Bashbish Brook at the western foot of the Taconic Mountains, a range that runs along the New York-Massachusetts border. The Copake Falls area of Taconic State Park, with campsites and hiking trails, is directly east of the hamlet, and Bash Bish Falls, the highest waterfall in Massachusetts, is located 2 miles to the east via New York State Route 344.