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Our Mission |
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The mission of this web site is to help you gain a general knowledge and understanding of the Catskill Mountain area. |
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We will also take a more
precise look at many of the distinctive features that |
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This site will be an on-going project, in which pictures and information will be added as time and resources become available. |
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The Catskills |
| The Catskills
is a natural area in New York State northwest
of New York City and southwest of Albany. |
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| To be considered part of the Catskills, a place must be within Delaware, Greene, Otsego, Schoharie, Ulster, Sullivan or southwestern Albany county. |
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| The Catskill Park was created by an act of the New York State Legislature and signed into law by Governor Benjamin Odell on April 4, 1904. |
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| The Park's 705,500 acres is an amalgam of both public and private lands in Delaware, Greene, Sullivan and Ulster Counties. |
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| The Catskill Forest Preserve comprises 41 percent of the Catskill Park, containing more than 300,000 acres of pristine land protected as "forever wild" in New York's Constitution.. |
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| The Park contains 600,000 acres with ninety-eight mountain peaks over 3,000 feet high and thirty peaks over 3,500 feet. (See List) |
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| The highest mountain, Slide Mountain in Ulster County, has an elevation of 4,180 feet (1,274 m). |
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| The Preserve is the state land within the Catskill Park. Since its creation in 1885, it has grown from 34,000 to almost 300,000 acres. |
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