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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]
According to Catskill forest historian Michael Kudish, the Slide wilderness contains the most extensive tract of first-growth forest in the Catskills. Much of the area remained out of reach during the peak years of logging and barkpeeling from eastern hemlock trees, to make tannin for leather production in the mid-19th century, and thus remained largely untouched.
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 ...
Fun for all ages awaits in this famed Alpine enclave upstate. Here, the latest and greatest hits in the mountains of yore. Ulster County. Roughly a 2 ½-hour drive from Manhattan lies Ulster County.
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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 .
Within the former are the three southernmost Catskill High Peaks: Peekamoose, Table and Lone mountains. At 3,847 feet (1,173 m), Table's summit is the highest point in the town. Slide Mountain, the highest peak in the Catskills, is north of Denning. A lower mountain, 2,990-foot (910 m) Red Hill, has a fire tower on its summit popular with hikers.
The Red Apple Rest was a cafeteria-style restaurant on New York State Route 17, in the Southfields section of Tuxedo, New York. [1] It was a noted way station for people traveling to the hotels of the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York.