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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 ...
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 ...
The Adirondack Mountains are sometimes considered part of the Appalachians but, geologically speaking, are a southern extension of the Laurentian Mountains of Canada. The Adirondacks do not form a connected range, but are an eroded dome consisting of over one hundred summits, ranging from under 1,200 feet (366 m) to over 5,000 feet (1,524 m) in ...
Hog Mountain is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York northeast of Arkville. Fleischmann Mountain is located south and Morris Hill is located southwest of Hog Mountain. References
Table Mountain is located in Ulster County, New York. The mountain is part of the Catskill Mountains. Table Mountain is flanked to the south by Peekamoose Mountain, and to the northeast by Lone Mountain. The east end of Table Mountain drains into Rondout Creek, thence into the Hudson River, and into New York Bay. The south side of Table Mtn ...
Windham High Peak is a mountain located in Greene County, New York. The mountain is part of the Catskill Mountains. Windham High Peak stands within the watershed of the Hudson River, which drains into New York Bay. The south and northwest sides of Windham drain into Batavia Kill, and thence into Schoharie Creek, the Mohawk River, and the Hudson ...
Stony Clove Creek is a 10.3-mile-long (16.6 km) [3] creek in the Catskill Mountains in New York. It is a tributary of Esopus Creek , which in turn is a tributary of the Hudson River . It joins the Esopus in the village of Phoenicia , and has two smaller tributaries up north of Phoenicia.
Kaaterskill Clove. Kaaterskill Clove is a deep gorge, or valley, in New York's eastern Catskill Mountains, lying just west of the village of Palenville and in Haines Falls. . The clove was formed by Kaaterskill Creek, a tributary of Catskill Creek rising west of North Mountain, and is estimated by geologists to be as much as 1 million years old