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Mountains in southeastern New York State, U.Southward.

Catskill Mountains
Slide Mount and nearby peaks as seen from Twin Mountain in the northern Catskills
Highest point
Peak	Slide Mountain
Meridian	4,180 ft (1,270 m)
Coordinates	41°59′55″N 74°23′eleven″Westward / 41.99861°N 74.38639°Westward / 41.99861; -74.38639 Coordinates: 41°59′55″Due north 74°23′eleven″West / 41.99861°N 74.38639°Due west / 41.99861; -74.38639
Dimensions
Length	111 mi (179 km) N/S
Width	102 mi (164 km) E/W
Surface area	15,259 km² (five,892 sq mi)
Geography
Principal regions of the northeast Appalachians, with the Catskills as "C"
Country	U.s.
State	New York
Region	Hudson Valley
Counties	Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster
Rivers	Esopus Creek, Neversink River, Rondout Creek and Schoharie Creek
Communities	Ellenville, Fleischmanns, Hunter, Liberty, Margaretville, Hancock, New York, Palenville, Phoenicia, Shandaken, Shokan, Tannersville, Wawarsing, Windham and Woodstock
Parent range	Appalachian (Allegheny Plateau)
Borders on	Poconos, Shawangunk Ridge, Hudson Valley, Great Appalachian Valley and Mohawk Valley
Geology
Age of stone	Devonian and Mississippian
Type of rock	Sedimentary

The Catskill Mountains, as well known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York. As a cultural and geographic region, the Catskills are generally defined as those areas close to or inside the borders of the Catskill Park, a 700,000-acre (2,800 km²) forest preserve forever protected from many forms of development under New York state law.

Geologically, the Catskills are a mature dissected plateau, a flat region after uplifted and eroded into sharp relief by watercourses. The Catskills form the northeastern end of the Allegheny Plateau (also known every bit the Appalachian Plateau).^[1] ^[two]

The Catskills were named by early on Dutch settlers. They are well known in American society as the setting for films and works of art, including many 19th-century Hudson River Schoolhouse paintings, also as for beingness a favored destination for vacationers from New York City in the mid-20th century. The region's many large resorts gave many young stand-upwardly comedians an opportunity to hone their craft. Since the late 19th century, the Catskills take been a haven for artists, musicians and writers, especially in and around the towns of Woodstock and Phoenicia.

History [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Views of the Catskills from the Hudson like this led to the proper noun "Blue Mountains" for a fourth dimension.

A 1685 revision of a 1656 map of New Netherland showing the locations of the "Lands of the Kats Kills" and the "High Lands of the Esopus"

Nicolaes Visscher I'southward 1656 map of New Netherland located the Landt van Kats Kill at the mouth of Catskill Creek. The region to the south is identified equally Hooge Landt van Esopus (High Lands of the Esopus), a reference to a local band of northern Lenape Native Americans who inhabited the banks of the Hudson and hunted in the highlands forth the Esopus Creek.^[3]

While the pregnant of the proper noun ("cat creek [impale]" in Dutch) and the namer (early on Dutch explorers) are settled matters, how and why the area is named "Catskills" is a mystery. Mount lions (catamounts) were known to have been in the area when the Dutch arrived in the 17th century and may have been a reason for the proper name.^[4]

The confusion over the origins of the proper name led over the years to variant spellings such as Kaatskill and Kaaterskill, both of which are also still used: the one-time in the regional mag Kaatskill Life, the latter equally the name of a mountain peak and a waterfall. The supposed Native American proper noun for the range, Onteora ("country in the sky"), was actually created by a white human being in the mid-19th century to drum up concern for a resort.^{[ citation needed ]} It, too, persists today as the proper noun of a school district and as the name of a Boy Picket summertime camp (Onteora Scout Reservation).

Geography [edit]

The Catskill Mountains are approximately 100 miles (160 km) north-northwest of New York Urban center and 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Albany, starting west of the Hudson River. The Catskills occupy much of ii counties (Greene and Ulster), and extend slightly into Delaware, Sullivan, and southwestern Schoharie counties.

At the range's eastern terminate, the mountains brainstorm dramatically with the Catskill Escarpment rising up suddenly from the Hudson Valley. The western boundary is far less certain, as the mountains gradually decline in height and grade into the rest of the Allegheny Plateau, simply maps from the 18th and 19th centuries consistently marking the edge of the Catskill Mountains as the East Branch of the Delaware River, which is consistent with the actual topographic relief.^[5] The Pocono Mountains, to the firsthand southwest in Pennsylvania, are as well a part of the Allegheny Plateau.

The Catskills incorporate more thirty peaks above 3,500 anxiety (1,100 m) and parts of six important rivers. The Catskill Mountain 3500 Lodge is an arrangement whose members have climbed all the peaks in the Catskills over three,500 feet (one,100 g). The highest mount, Slide Mountain in Ulster County, has an peak of four,180 feet (i,270 k).

Climatically, the Catskills lie inside the Allegheny Highlands forests ecoregion.

Climate [edit]

According to the Köppen climate nomenclature system, the Catskill Mountains have two climate zones. The vast majority of the Catskills have a warm summertime humid continental climate (Dfb) with some isolated locations in valleys with hot summer humid continental climate (Dfa). The plant hardiness zone on Slide Mountain at four,180 anxiety (1,270 m) is 5a with an boilerplate annual extreme minimum temperature of −16.half-dozen °F (−27.0 °C). The constitute hardiness zone in Margaretville at ane,000 anxiety (300 g) is 5b with an average annual extreme minimum temperature of −10.six °F (−23.7 °C).^[6]

Climate data for Phoenicia, Ulster Canton NY. Elevation: 900 ft (274 thousand)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	April	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Average high °F (°C)	34.4 (1.iii)	37.nine (3.3)	47.4 (8.vi)	60.8 (16.0)	71.0 (21.seven)	79.ix (26.half dozen)	83.iv (28.6)	82.3 (27.9)	75.1 (23.9)	62.8 (17.1)	51.0 (10.6)	39.4 (4.i)	60.4 (15.eight)
Daily hateful °F (°C)	26.nine (−ii.8)	29.i (−ane.6)	36.five (2.5)	l.5 (10.3)	threescore.1 (15.6)	68.9 (20.five)	74.3 (23.five)	71.viii (22.1)	66.four (19.1)	51.0 (10.vi)	41.3 (5.2)	30.v (−0.viii)	49.4 (nine.7)
Average low °F (°C)	18.1 (−7.vii)	20.0 (−6.7)	27.viii (−ii.three)	40.5 (4.vii)	51.4 (10.8)	57.ix (14.4)	62.9 (17.ii)	61.0 (16.ane)	56.3 (thirteen.v)	42.6 (five.9)	32.9 (0.v)	22.9 (−5.1)	38.4 (three.6)
Average precipitation inches (mm)	three.half dozen (91)	3.98 (101)	3.82 (97)	iv.0 (100)	3.9 (99)	three.ii (81)	2.6 (66)	2.9 (74)	3.02 (77)	3.6 (91)	3.7 (94)	iii.5 (89)	46.33 (1,177)
Average relative humidity (%)	69.ane	66.2	59.2	55.8	60.viii	67.iv	lxx.8	lxx.0	71.0	69.seven	69.9	69.3	66.0
Source: PRISM Climate Group^[7]

Calendar month	January	February	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Twelvemonth
Average Dew Bespeak °F	16.2	17.7	24.3	34.3	48.half dozen	57.8	63.two	61.7	55.8	41.9	32.2	22.ane	38.9
Average Dew Point °C	−8.8	−vii.ix	−4.six	ane.ane	7.6	13.half dozen	xvi.2	15.9	12.ane	5.5	0.i	−5.5	three.viii
Source: PRISM Climate Group^[7]

Climate data for Margaretville, Delaware Canton, NY. Elevation: 1,000 ft (300 1000)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Twelvemonth
Average loftier °F (°C)	34.eight (i.6)	38.three (3.5)	47.seven (eight.vii)	61.0 (16.1)	71.4 (21.ix)	80.1 (26.7)	83.8 (28.8)	82.iv (28.0)	75.iv (24.i)	63.0 (17.2)	51.5 (10.eight)	39.8 (4.3)	sixty.eight (xvi.0)
Daily hateful °F (°C)	27.1 (−2.seven)	29.2 (−1.vi)	36.9 (2.7)	fifty.0 (10.0)	60.2 (15.7)	69.0 (xx.half dozen)	74.iv (23.6)	71.9 (22.two)	66.six (19.2)	51.4 (x.8)	41.viii (5.4)	30.eight (−0.vii)	49.viii (ix.nine)
Average low °F (°C)	xviii.4 (−seven.6)	xx.ane (−6.six)	28.0 (−2.ii)	40.1 (iv.v)	51.9 (xi.1)	58.0 (14.4)	63.5 (17.v)	61.4 (16.three)	56.4 (13.half dozen)	42.9 (vi.one)	33.1 (0.6)	23.two (−4.9)	38.8 (3.eight)
Boilerplate atmospheric precipitation inches (mm)	3.6 (91)	3.63 (92)	3.8 (97)	4.0 (100)	3.nine (99)	iii.2 (81)	2.5 (64)	ii.9 (74)	iii.0 (76)	iii.half-dozen (91)	3.63 (92)	3.5 (89)	46.32 (ane,177)
Boilerplate relative humidity (%)	68.5	64.iii	58.5	55.8	61.half-dozen	67.iv	70.9	70.2	71.vii	69.9	68.5	69.8	66.0
Source: PRISM Climate Group^[7]

Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	April	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	November	Dec	Year
Boilerplate Dew Signal °F	xvi.2	17.7	24.3	34.iii	48.half dozen	57.eight	63.2	61.seven	55.8	41.nine	32.2	22.i	38.ix
Average Dew Point °C	-8.8	-7.9	-4.6	1.1	7.6	13.6	16.2	15.nine	12.1	5.5	0.1	-5.5	iii.8
Source: PRISM Climate Group^[7]

Geology [edit]

Kaaterskill Falls on Spruce Creek about Palenville, New York. Ane of the higher falls in New York. Two divide falls total 260 ft (79 yard).

Although the Catskills are sometimes compared with the Adirondack Mountains farther due north, the two mountain ranges are non geologically related, as the Adirondacks are a continuation of the Canadian Shield. Similarly, the Shawangunk Ridge, which forms the southeastern edge of the Catskills, is function of the geologically singled-out Ridge-and-Valley province and is a continuation of the same ridge known every bit Kittatinny Mountain in New Bailiwick of jersey and Blue Mountain in Pennsylvania.

The Catskill Mountains are more than of a dissected plateau^[8] than a series of mountain ranges. The sediments that make up the rocks in the Catskills were deposited when the ancient Acadian Mountains in the eastward were rising and afterwards eroding. The sediments traveled w and formed a great delta into the sea that was in the expanse at that time. The escarpment of the Catskill Mountains is near the erstwhile (landward) edge of this delta, as the sediments deposited in the northeastern areas forth the escarpment were deposited above sea level by moving rivers, and the Acadian Mountains were located roughly where the Taconic Mountains are located today (though significantly larger). Finer sediment was deposited farther westward, and thus the rocks change from gravel conglomerates to sandstone and shale. Further west, these fresh water deposits intermingle with shallow marine sandstone and shale until the stop, in deeper water limestone.

The uplift and erosion of the Acadian Mountains was occurring during the Devonian^[9] and early on Mississippian period (395 to 325 million years agone). Over that time, thousands of feet of these sediments congenital up, slowly moving the Devonian seashore further westward. A meteor affect occurred in the shallow bounding main approximately 375 mya, creating a 10 km (6 mi) diameter crater. This crater somewhen filled with sediments and became Panther Mountain through the procedure of uplift and erosion. By the centre of the Mississippian period, the uplift stopped, and the Acadian Mountains had been eroded so much that sediments no longer flowed across the Catskill Delta.

Over time, the sediments were cached by more sediments from other areas, until the original Devonian and Mississippian sediments were deeply buried and slowly became solid rock. Then the entire area experienced uplift, which caused the sedimentary rocks to begin to erode. Today, those upper sedimentary rocks have been completely removed, exposing the Devonian and Mississippian rocks. Today'south Catskills are a result of the connected erosion of these rocks, both by streams and, in the recent past, past glaciers.

In successive water ice ages, both valley and continental glaciers have widened the valleys and the notches of the Catskills and rounded the mountains. Grooves and scratches in exposed boulder provide evidence of the dandy sheets of water ice that once traversed the region. Even today the erosion of the mountains continues, with the region'south rivers and streams deepening and widening the mountains' valleys and cloves.

Recreation [edit]

Aquatic sports and recreation [edit]

Esopus Creek is a 65.four-mile (105.3 km) tributary of the Hudson River, starting at Winnisook Lake on Slide Mountain. It flows across Ulster County to the Hudson River at Saugerties. The Esopus is noted for making an nigh 270-caste plow around Panther Mountain, following a buried 6-mile (10 km) impact crater rim. Information technology is famous for tubing, a sport of rafting down a river in an inner tube. Many tubers begin their trip at Phoenicia, New York, and head down the creek towards the Ashokan Reservoir at Olive, New York.

The Ashokan Reservoir is part of the New York City water supply organisation, with fishing allowed under permit, merely pond and nigh other recreational uses are forbidden.

River canoeing and kayaking are pop. There are 42 rapids ranging from class I to 5+.^[10]

The Esopus Creek is famous for its fly fishing, although in recent years^{[ when? ]} it has been plagued by invasive plants.^[11]

Cycling [edit]

Route and mountain bicycling are adequately popular in the range. Bicycle racing includes the Tour of the Catskills, a 3-day route stage race held in Green and Ulster counties each summertime,^[12] and the UCI Mount Cycle World Cup in Windham.^[13] Other cycling resource include the Catskill Scenic Trail, the Headwaters Trails in Stamford and the Roundtopia trail network (mapped by the Circular Peak Mountain Bike Clan).^[14] Several ski centers provide downhill mountain bicycling in the warmer months.

Hiking and camping [edit]

Within the range is the Catskill Park, comprising over 700,000 acres (280,000 ha). Catskill Park is part of New York's Wood Preserve. Not all the land is publicly endemic; about threescore% remains in private hands, but new sections are added frequently. Near of the park and the preserve are within Ulster County, with a significant portion in Greene Canton, and parts in Sullivan and Delaware counties likewise. Many of the trails in public areas are maintained and updated by the New York–New Jersey Trail Conference and the Catskill Mountain 3500 Club.

Devil'south Path is 1 of the many trails open for hikers. Spots to army camp in the Catskills include Bear Bound Mountain, Little Swimming, Mongaup Pond, and Due north-South Lake.^[xv]

Skiing [edit]

There are v principal downhill ski and snowboard areas in the Catskills: Belleayre Mount (run by the Olympic Regional Development Authority); Hunter Mountain (the outset ski area to install snowmaking machines in New York); Windham Mount; Holiday Mount Ski and Fun in Monticello; and Plattekill Mount in Roxbury.

Joppenbergh Mountain, in Rosendale Village hosted its showtime ski jumping competition in 1937. Ski jumping was connected on the mountain until Feb seven, 1971, when the terminal contest was held.

The Mount Trails Cross Country Ski Centre in Tannersville has 22 miles (35 km) of trails.

Structures [edit]

Fire towers [edit]

The Catskill Mountains fire towers were synthetic to facilitate forest fire prevention and command. Twenty-3 burn down towers were built in the Catskill Mountains between 1908 and 1950. The fire towers fell out of utilise by the 1970s as fire spotting from airplanes had become more effective and efficient, so the burn towers were decommissioned; the Hunter Mountain Fire Tower was the final to exist taken out of service in 1990. All simply six of the towers were dismantled. The five remaining towers have been renovated and opened to the public equally observation posts with panoramic views. The remaining towers are:

Balsam Lake Mount Fire Observation Station well-nigh Hardenburgh, top three,723 ft (1,135 k)
Hunter Mountain Burn Tower near Hunter, elevation 4,042 ft (one,232 m)
Mt. Utsayantha Burn Tower virtually Stamford, New York, peak 3,214 ft (980 m)
Overlook Mountain Belfry nearly Woodstock, elevation three,140 ft (960 thou)
Red Loma Fire Observation Station near Denning, elevation 2,990 ft (910 m)
Mountain Tremper Burn Observation Station nearly Shandaken, meridian ii,740 ft (840 thou)

Notable landmarks [edit]

The Catskill Mountain House, built in 1824, was a hotel near Palenville, New York, in the Catskill Mountains overlooking the Hudson River Valley. In its prime at the turn of the century, visitors included United states of america Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Chester A. Arthur and Theodore Roosevelt.

Transportation [edit]

From 1872, the northern part of the Catskills were served by the Catskill Mountain Branch of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad which was absorbed into the New York Key railroad in 1932. Oneonta to Kingston passenger runway service continued until 1954. Function of the line still exists but now serves just freight.

The southern part of the Catskills was served by the New York, Ontario and Western Railway. Over the course of 1950, service on the NYO&Westward downscaled to summer simply. In its terminal years information technology ran trains from Roscoe to Weehawken, New Bailiwick of jersey, via Liberty. It connected with the New York Cardinal's West Shore Railroad at Cornwall.^[sixteen] ^[17] This service lasted until September 10, 1953.^[eighteen]

The Delaware and Ulster Railroad is a heritage railroad, based in Arkville, New York, that still runs a scenic office of the track from Highmount to Hubbell Corners, New York, for tourist use. The Catskill Mountain Railroad is as well a heritage railroad in the Catskills, operating from Kingston up to Highmount.

The Catskills are accessible by auto from the eastward along Interstate 87/New York Land Freeway, which runs due north–south through the Hudson Valley. To the s and southwest, the Catskills are accessible by a variety of highways, including New York Land Road 55, U.South. Route 44, U.S. Route 209, and New York Land Route 17. Admission to the western Catskills is provided by New York State Road 30; and the vaguely divers far-western border of the region is variously considered to be New York State Road x or Interstate 88, though this boundary remains a matter of local preference. New York State Routes 28 and 23A cutting east–w through the centre of the Catskills, serving many of the well-nigh popular outdoor tourist destinations. New York State Route 23 runs east–west across the Catskills' northern department.

The closest major airports to the Catskill region are Albany International Aerodrome to the north and Stewart International Drome in Newburgh to the south. Smaller airports in the region include:

Columbia County Airport in Hudson
Dutchess County Airport in Poughkeepsie
Joseph Y. Resnick Airport in Ellenville
Kingston–Ulster Airport
Kobelt Airdrome in Wallkill
Randall Airport in Middletown
Sullivan Canton International Airport in Monticello
Wurtsboro–Sullivan County Airport

In popular culture [edit]

The Hudson Valley Film Committee maintains a list of films ready in the Hudson Valley/Catskills Region.^[19] Of them, more than 3 dozen films are set in the Catskills. Author/illustrator Jonathan Schork, built-in and raised in Olivebridge in the southern Catskills, acknowledges the area as the inspiration for two of his children'southward books: 2016's The Honey of Simon Play a joke on, and 2018's More Tales from the Enchanted Forest (the latter the recipient of several prizes for children's literature).^[twenty] The town of Bethel, New York, located in the Catskills, was habitation to the famous Woodstock music festival that took identify August fifteen–18, 1969. The event, wherein 32 music acts performed in front end of over 500,000 concert-goers, was captured in the documentary movie Woodstock (1970). The site is at present domicile to the world-renowned Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

The many hotels and vacation resorts located in the Catskills are notable in American cultural history for their office in the development of modern stand-up comedy. Comedians such as Rodney Dangerfield, Jackie Mason, Alan Male monarch, and Don Rickles all got their start performing in Catskill hotel venues colloquially referred to as the Borscht Belt.^[21]

Gallery of paintings and photographs
Paul Weber, Scene in the Catskills, 1858
Painting by Asher Dark-brown Durand depicting the Catskills using the "sublime landscape" approach^[22]
The Redmond Stage, Woodstock music festival, 1969
Kaaterskill Falls on the Catskill Mountains (1826–27), painting by William Guy Wall, Honolulu Museum of Fine art

Run across also [edit]

Helderberg Escarpment
Resorts World Catskills

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

"Catskill Mountains". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. five (11th ed.). 1911.
Hiking Guide to Catskill High Peaks—Catskill 3500 Social club
List of Catskills peaks organized by hiking difficulty
Website for the Catskill Mountain Club hiking
The Catskill Archive – History of the Catskill Mountains
The Catskill Mountain Foundation
The Catskill Eye
The Catskill Watershed Corporation
Catskill Region Photograph Gallery
Catskill Mountainkeeper—Protecting the Half dozen Counties of the Catskills
Catskill Mount Businesses listed on Hudson Valley Directory
Sullivan Canton Visitors Association

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