Question

What are the Palisades?

Answer 1

The Palisades, also called the New Jersey Palisades or the Hudson River Palisades, are a line of steep cliffs along the west side of the lower Hudson River .

Why are they called the Palisades?

The rocks that look like trees

When explorer Giovanni da Verrazano sailed past the ridge in 1524, he thought it resembled a “fence of stakes,” or in military parlance a stockade (or palisade) built for defensive purposes. That's what it's called on the first map of the New World, printed 17 years later.