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The Grand Hotel was a hotel located in Highmount, New York. It was built by the Ulster and Delaware Railroad in 1881 and closed in 1966. J. A. Wood was the building's architect. Sitting on the side of Monka Hill, it had 418 rooms overlooking the Big Indian Valley towards Slide Mountain. [1]
Belleayre Mountain, in Catskill Park and the New York State Forest Preserve is a mountain with a summit elevation of 3375', in New York, United States; and it is the name of a ski resort also located on the mountain [3]-- and owned by the people of the state of New York and managed by the Olympic Regional Development Authority or ORDA.
Grand Hotel station, MP 41.4 of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad, was located in the small mountain hamlet of Highmount, New York, at the summit between Big Indian and Arkville. A turntable was located here, allowing pusher engines to be turned before descending to Arkville or Big Indian.
Mountain Jam is an annual music festival held in upstate New York since 2005. It started as a small one day music festival in 2005 with 3000 attendees, [2] and has grown over the years into the largest rock and camping festival in the Northeast that is usually 3 or 4 days long, drawing over 40,000 attendees over the duration of the Festival.
The new tourist railroad started operations in 1983, between Highmount and Arkville, NY, and extended operations later to the Arkville-Roxbury, NY segment. The DURR operates in Delaware County, New York on the former U&D tracks west of Highmount, where the tracks are defunct eastward to a point just east of West Hurley.
The Belleayre Music Festival is an annual festival in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York.Founded in Highmount, NY, Phyllis and Mel Litoff, raised the prominence of the festival after becoming co-artistic directors in 1993. [1]
Shandaken is a town on the northern border of Ulster County, New York, United States, northwest of Kingston, New York. As of the 2020 census, the town had a total population of 2,866. [2] [better source needed] The name is believed to be from an Esopus phrase for "land of rapid waters." [3]
Wood's design for the Grand Hotel (Highmount, New York) was a project for Thomas Cornell, owner of Hudson River steamships and the Ulster and Delaware Railroad. Cornell concluded that a hotel near the railroad would boost traffic and draw wealthy clients who would be hours away from Grand Central Station in New York City. [ 5 ]