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  2. North–South Lake - Wikipedia

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    North–South Lake is an 1,100-acre (4.4 km 2) state campground in the Catskill Forest Preserve near Palenville, New York operated by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation near the site of the historic Catskill Mountain House overlooking the Hudson River. The escarpment on which the lakes are located is at 2,250 feet (685. ...

  3. Catskill Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province and subrange 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 within the borders of the Catskill Park, a 700,000-acre (2,800 km 2) forest preserve protected from many forms of development under ...

  4. Forest Preserve (New York) - Wikipedia

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    DEC manages 45 campgrounds in the Adirondacks and 7 in the Catskills, for a total of 52 (public campgrounds elsewhere in New York are under the authority of the state parks). The state's three ski areas — Belleayre Mountain in the Catskills and Gore mountain and Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks — also fall under this classification as ...

  5. Catskill Park - Wikipedia

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    The Catskill Park is in the Catskill Mountains in the U.S. state of New York. It consists of 700,000 acres (280,000 ha; 2,800 km 2 ) of land inside a Blue Line in four counties: Delaware , Greene , Sullivan , and Ulster .

  6. How the Catskills became the long weekend summer ... - AOL

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    My family are spending a weekend in the Catskill Mountains, a 1,000-square-mile subrange of the Appalachians just west of the Hudson River Valley, a couple of hours’ drive northwest of New York ...

  7. North Mountain (Catskills) - Wikipedia

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    It is part of the Catskill Escarpment. Cairo Round Top is located northeast and Artists Rock is located southeast of North Mountain. It overlooks the North-South Lake State Campground , an area where resort hotels such as the Catskill Mountain House were once located, and thus has long been a popular climb with hikers .

  8. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

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    The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (informally referred to as NYSDEC, DEC, EnCon or NYSENCON) is a department of New York state government. [4] The department guides and regulates the conservation, improvement, and protection of New York's natural resources; manages Forest Preserve lands in the Adirondack and Catskill parks, state forest lands, and wildlife management ...

  9. Notch Lake - Wikipedia

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    Notch Lake is an artificial lake in Edgewood, New York, in the Town of Hunter in the Catskill Mountains. It is located near the Stony Clove Notch, and is located near the edge of the Devil's Tombstone Campsite, bordering New York State Route 214. [1] There is also a parking lot near the shore. It is the beginning of the Stony Clove Creek.