The Cascades
The Cascades is a fountain in Jackson, Michigan. The Cascades is situated nearby to Sparks Foundation County Park, as well as near the reservoir Alpine Lake.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Westwood Mall and Michigan Theatre.
Westwood Mall
Shopping center
Westwood Mall is an enclosed shopping mall serving the community of Jackson, Michigan. It opened in 1972 and the mall's anchor stores are JCPenney and Walmart. There is 1 vacant anchor store that was once Younkers. Westwood Mall is situated 1½ miles north of The Cascades.
Michigan Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Michigan Theatre is a historic movie palace in downtown Jackson, Michigan. The theater was built for W. S. Butterfield Theatres, and opened in 1930 as the first air-conditioned building in downtown Jackson. Michigan Theatre is situated 2 miles northeast of The Cascades.
Jackson station
Railway station
Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jackson station is a historic Amtrak station in Jackson, Michigan, United States. It is served by three daily Wolverine trains between Chicago and Pontiac and a single daily Amtrak Thruway bus between Toledo, Detroit, Jackson, and East Lansing. Jackson station is situated 2 miles northeast of The Cascades.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jackson and Vandercook Lake.
Jackson
Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jackson is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County in the south-central part of the state of Michigan, halfway between Kalamazoo and Ann Arbor, forty minutes south of Lansing and about an hour west of Detroit.
Vandercook Lake
Village
Vandercook Lake is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, Vandercook Lake had a population of 4,579. It is located within Summit Township. Vandercook Lake is situated 3½ miles southeast of The Cascades.
Michigan Center
Suburb
Michigan Center is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, Michigan Center had a population of 4,609. Michigan Center is situated 5 miles east of The Cascades.
The Cascades
- Type: Fountain
- Category: body of water
- Location: Jackson, Michigan, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.22949° or 42° 13′ 46″ northLongitude
-84.43393° or 84° 26′ 2″ westOpen location code
86JQ6HH8+QCOpenStreetMap ID
way 215516798OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=fountain
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