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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 ...
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.
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.
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
Rocky Mountain is one of the 35 peaks in the Catskills greater than 3,500 feet elevation, and is a required ascent for membership in the Catskill Mountain 3500 Club. The ascent involves bushwhacking as there is no trail to the summit. Rocky Mountain is within the Slide Mountain Wilderness of New York's Catskill State Park.
Cornell Mountain is a mountain located in Ulster County, New York.The mountain is part of the Burroughs Range of the Catskill Mountains.Cornell Mountain is flanked to the northeast by Wittenberg Mountain, to the southwest by Friday Mountain, and to the west by 4,180-foot (1,270 m) Slide Mountain — the highest peak in the Catskills.