Storm King Mountain across the Hudson
— — the granite shoulder that holds the river bend.
Not only on a wall.
“The mountain that gave the highlands their drama. Storm King sits on the west bank where the Hudson narrows and turns, a 1,340-foot granite dome opposite Breakneck Ridge. Route 218 climbs around its face on a road blasted into the cliff in 1922, with the river running silver below. Painters from the Hudson River School returned here for a century, and a landmark 1965 lawsuit over a proposed power plant gave American environmental law one of its first teeth. From the studio.
Storm King Mountain across the Hudson, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Storm King is a granite dome on the west bank of the Hudson River in Cornwall, Orange County, rising 1,340 feet directly from the water. It marks the northern gate of the Hudson Highlands, opposite Breakneck Ridge and Bull Hill on the east bank, where the river cuts a fjord-like passage through the Appalachian range. The mountain sits within Storm King State Park, managed by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, and is reached by Route 9W or the cliff-clinging Storm King Highway, Route 218, completed in 1922.
The mountain is Storm King Granite, a coarse-grained pink-grey rock about 1.1 billion years old, part of the Hudson Highlands gneiss-granite belt that the river cut through to form this narrow stretch. The same rock makes Breakneck and Bull Hill on the opposite bank. It is the hardest rock the Hudson meets between the Adirondacks and the sea, which is why the river bends here rather than widening, and why the highway had to be blasted rather than graded.
In 1962 Consolidated Edison proposed a pumped-storage power plant cut into the mountain's face. The lawsuit that followed, Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. FPC, was decided in 1965 and is widely cited as the case that established standing for citizen groups to challenge federal environmental decisions. Con Ed withdrew the plan in 1980. The fight is taught in American environmental law courses as the beginning of modern public-interest standing, and the mountain has been quiet ever since.