Catskill Mountains
The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are part of the larger Appalachian Mountains. They are in southeastern New York. The Catskills are generally defined as those areas close to or within 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.
 Slide Mountain and nearby peaks as seen from Twin Mountain in the northern Catskills | |
| Elevation | 4,180 ft (1,274 m) |
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The Catskills form the northeastern end of the Allegheny Plateau (also known as the Appalachian Plateau).[1][2]
Catskill Mountains Media
Views of the Catskills from the Hudson like this led to the name "Blue Mountains" for a time.
Free-floating tubers on Esopus Creek
Kaaterskill Falls on Spruce Creek near Palenville, New York. One of the higher falls in New York. Two separate falls total 260 ft (79 m).
Platte Clove, a break in the Catskill Escarpment created by glacial action
The Ashokan Reservoir as seen from Wittenberg Mountain
Balsam Lake Mountain fire tower in 2008
A map of the railroads in the Catskills. Despite what the map says, nearly the entirety of this map is of the Catskills. East of the Hudson River are The Berkshires and the Taconic Mountains, and to the far north (central and northern Albany County, and far-northern Schoharie County) are the Appalachians.
View from The Mountain House (1836), painting by William Henry Bartlett
References
- ↑ REGIONAL TOPOGRAPHY. Catskills GIS AtlasCatskill Center. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ↑ Physiographic divisions of the conterminous U. SU.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 2007-12-06.
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