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Slide Mountain is the highest peak in the Catskill Mountains of the U.S. state of New York.It is located in the town of Shandaken in Ulster County.While the 4,180-foot (1,270 m) contour line on topographic maps is generally accepted as its height, the exact elevation of the summit has never been officially determined by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey or its predecessors, and many informal ...
The Slide Mountain Wilderness Area is, at 47,500 acres (19,200 ha), the largest tract of state-owned Forest Preserve in New York's Catskill Park, and the largest area under any kind of wilderness area protection between the Adirondacks and the southern Appalachians. It is located in the towns of Shandaken, Denning and Olive in Ulster County.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... including many around Slide Mountain (Ulster County, New York). ... New York's wilderness areas must be composed of 10,000 ...
The only significant difference between New York's wilderness policy and the federal government's is that the former limits the classification to contiguous parcels of at least 10,000 acres (40 km 2), instead of 5,000 (20 km 2). Currently, approximately 1.1 million acres (4,400 km 2) of the Forest Preserve is designated as wilderness.
Peekamoose Mountain is a mountain located in Ulster County, New York. The mountain is part of the Catskill Mountains. Peekamoose Mountain is flanked to the north by Table Mountain. The name Peekamoose is possibly an anglicization of an Algonquin word meaning 'broken off smooth', cf. Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain. [2]
Slide Mountain Ocean, an ancient ocean that existed between the Intermontane Islands and North America in the Triassic; Slide Mountain terrane, a late Paleozoic terrane; Slide Mountain Wilderness Area, a tract of state-owned Forest Preserve in New York; All pages with titles beginning with Slide Mountain
Wittenberg Mountain is within the Slide Mountain Wilderness of New York's Catskill State Park. The Long Path , a 350-mile (560 km) long-distance hiking trail from New York City to Albany , is contiguous with the section of the Burroughs Range Trail crossing the summits of Slide , Cornell, and Wittenberg.
The Burroughs Range is in the Catskill Mountains of New York southeast of West Shokan. It consists of Cornell Mountain, Slide Mountain, the highest peak in the Catskills, and Wittenberg Mountain. The range was named for John Burroughs, a nature essayist whose forte was the observation of nature with accompanying poetical or philosophical ...