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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.
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
The Catskill High Peaks are all of the mountains in New York's Catskill Mountains above 3,500 ft (1,067 m) in elevation whose summits are separated either by one-half mile (0.8 km) or a vertical drop of at least 250 ft (76.2 m) between it and the next nearest separate summit. By usual standards, these mountains are rather low and rounded, and ...
New York's wilderness areas must be composed of 10,000 acres (4,000 ha; 40 km 2) of contiguous land, twice the federal standard. Land is to be left as "untrammeled by man" and as close to its natural state as possible, offering outstanding opportunities for solitude.
Most of New York's legally recognized wilderness areas are managed by the state, part of its constitutionally-declared Forest Preserve in the Adirondack and Catskill parks. There is only one wilderness area on federal land protected by the U.S. National Wilderness Act of 1964.
Since the town is entirely within the Catskill Park, large tracts of land are owned by the state Department of Environmental Conservation as part of New York's Forest Preserve. These forests are either in the Sundown Wild Forest in the eastern parts of the town or the Slide Mountain Wilderness Area in its central regions.
There are three major mountain ranges in New York: the Adirondack Mountains, the Catskill Mountains, and part of the Appalachian Mountains. Adirondack Mountains [ edit ]