Along the Mohawk RIver
Mohawk Valley
National Land Cover Dataset – Mohawk Valley
Here is the Mohawk Valley with the National land Cover Dataset layer on. The area around the valley is quite agricultural, but once you head north a few miles it becomes quite forested.
LANDSTAT 1 – January 8, 1973
Monday, January 8, 1973 after a snow storm that most impacted the higher elevation areas south of Adirondacks. LANDSTAT 1 satellite photo shown in 3D mode -- the LANDSTAT data going back to 1972 is all geo-referenced so it's super easy to play with it.
Illion
I always find driving the part of the Thruway around Illion to be the most fascinating. It's an interesting mix of geologies as you rise from the end of the Mohawk Valley into the Onieda Lake plains - the mucky farm country with many a swamp and arces of fertile black dirt.
LANDSTAT 1 – January 8, 1973
Monday, January 8, 1973 after a snow storm that most impacted the higher elevation areas south of Adirondacks. LANDSTAT 1. And yes, as you can see, the old LANDSTAT imagetry is geoReferenced. Neat!
Waterford Flight of Locks
The 5 locks that comprise the Waterford Flight of Locks raise watercraft 165 feet in just over a mile. It is said to be the greatest lift in the shortest distance on any canal system in the world.
The Mohawk Valley
The Mohawk Valley is an interesting mixture of urban development, old mill towns and farming. Starting at Albany, you are looking west past the Pine Bush and Schenectady to the farm lands that line the valley, trimmed with the hills of Central Leatherstocking region to the south and Adirondacks to the north.