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Books : Travel : United States : States : New York : Catskills
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With more than 600 miles of trails within just a few hours of New York City, the Catskills and the Hudson River Valley are a hiker's paradise, boasting varied and scenic terrain from Westchester County to Albany. This new guide from the experts at the Appalachian Mountain Club leads beginner and experienced hikers alike along sixty of the region's most spectacular trails, from short family nature walks to day-long hikes that reward with magnificent views. Each trip description includes a detailed map and a summary of the trip time, distance, and difficulty, plus an icon indicating whether the trail is also good for snowshoeing or cross-country. The guide includes appendices packed with snowshoe treks, rock climbing in the Gunks, and other opportunities for outdoor adventure in the region, making this guide an essential four-season reference for locals and visitors alike.
Special features include:
>Fifty day hikes for all ability levels, ranging from two to eight miles long
>Detailed and accurate trail descriptions
>Locator map and "At-A-Glance" highlights chart for easy trip comparison and planning
>Hiking and safety tips
>Detailed maps showing parking areas, trails, and natural highlights
>Nature Notes about prominent species, and unique natural features of each hike
>Photographs of plant and animal life reflecting each trip's hidden wonders
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This detailed guide provides complete coverage of more than 300 miles of trails in the beautiful Catskill Mountains.
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Recommended by the New York Times, this is the "insider's guide" to the Hudson Valley and Catskills, including the best of Saratoga Springs and Albany.R
Rich with historical and cultural attractions, the Hudson Valley and Catskills region is also a burgeoning mecca for travelers seeking outdoor adventure and family fun; five-star dining and the best American cuisine using the freshest locally grown produce; luxurious resorts, cozy bed & breakfasts and inns; as well as galleries, antiques shops, wineries, farm stands, hiking and bike trails, and places to kayak and canoe. With detailed maps and hundreds of honest reviews of accommodations, eateries and activities to appeal to independent travelers and those seeking value for money, this guide casts a wide net to cull the best this dynamic region has to offer. 13 maps, 75 black & white photographs, index.
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A stunning photographic portrait of the hallowed streams where American fly-fishing had its beginnings. The Beaverkill, Willowemoc, Neversink, Esopus, Schoharie, and Delaware--the rivers of angling pioneers Thaddeus Norris, Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, Theodore Gordon, and many others--are celebrated in this gorgeous book of photographs and text. In three major sections, Land of Little Rivers presents historical and physical profiles of the rivers; classic rods, reels, and flies; and engaging stories of the people, events, and developments that constitute the Catskill fly-fishing tradition. Author Austin McK. Francis, noted angling historian and biographer and acknowledged authority on the history of Catskill fly fishing, has a home in the Catskill Mountains and has fished there for more than thirty-five years. Famed photographer and avid fly fisher Enrico Ferorelli, a regular contributor to National Geographic and Smithsonian magazines, spent five months creating the most evocative portfolio of photos ever made of these historic rivers. Together they have produced an exquisite, museum-quality work, one that captures magnificently the beauty and passion so central to the sport Izaak Walton called "the gentle art."
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Hiking and driving guide to over 70 waterfalls in New York State's Catskill Mountains, Shawangunk Mountains, and vicinity, with detailed directions, historical & anecdotal information, maps, and vintage postcard illustrations. Waterfall adventures for every level of ability from roadside views to wilderness treks and kayak paddles.
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Fully revised and updated, this popular second edition features a statewide sampling of 75 great hikes.
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Book One: The Northern Catskills. Photos, maps and keys to hikes. The escarpment wall, Huckleberry Pt., Plattekill Clove, Kaaterskill High Peak, Kaaterskill Clove, Roundtop, Hunter Mtn., Windham High Peak, Pratt's Rock, Mount Utsayantha, Huntersfield, The Devil's Path: Indian Head, Twin, Sugarloaf & Paltyeau, Bearpen, The Blackhead Range: Thomas Cole, Blackdome & Blackhead.
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A century ago, New Yorkers, hungry for mountain air, good food, and a Jewish environment combined with an American way of leisure, began to develop a resort area unique in the world. By the 1950s, this summer Eden of bungalow colonies, summer camps, and over 900 hotels had attracted over a million people a year. This was the Jewish Catskills of Sullivan and Ulster Counties.Born to a small hotel-owning family who worked for decades in hotels after losing their own, Phil Brown tells a story of the many elements of this magical environment. His own waiter's tales, his mother's culinary exploits as a chef, and his father's jobs as maitre d' and coffee shop operator offer a backdrop to the vital life of Catskills summers. Catskill Culture recounts the life of guests, staff, resort owners, entertainers, and local residents through the author's memories and archival research and the memories of 120 others.
The Catskills resorts shaped American Jewish culture, enabling Jews to become more American while at the same time introducing the American public to immigrant Jewish culture. Catskills entertainment provided the nation with a rich supply of comedians, musicians, and singers. Legions of young men and women used the Catskills as a springboard to successful careers and marriages. A decline for the resort area beginning in the 1970s has led to many changes. Today most of the hotels and bungalow colonies are gone or in ruins, while other communities, notably those of the Hasidim, have appeared. The author includes an appendix listing over 900 hotels he has been able to document and invites readers to contact him with additional entries.
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Book Two: The Central Catskills with keys to hikes, trail maps, photos. Mount Tremper, Overlook, Ashokan High Point, Slide, Giant Ledge, Panther, Cornell, Wittenberg, Belleayre, Balsam, Haynes & Eagle, Big Indian, Peekamoose, Table Mountain, Dry Brook Ridge, Balsam Lake, Doubletop, plus the trail-less High Peaks.
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For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process, one in which local and urban hands, capital, and ideas have come together to reshape the mountains and the communities therein, with environmental, economic, and cultural consequences.Early on, the Catskills were an important source of natural resources. Later, when New York City needed to expand its water supply, engineers helped direct the city toward the Catskills, claiming that the mountains offered the purest and most cost-effective waters. By the 1960s, New York had created a great reservoir and aqueduct system in the mountains that now supplies the city with 90 percent of its water.
The Catskills also served as a critical space in which the nation's ideas about nature evolved. Stradling describes the great influence of writers and artists - especially the painters of the Hudson River School, whose ideal landscapes created expectations about how rural America should appear. By the mid-1800s, urban residents had turned the Catskills into an important vacation ground, and by the late 1800s, the Catskills had become one of the premiere resort regions in the nation.
In the mid-twentieth century, the older Catskill resort region was in steep decline, but the Jewish "Borscht Belt" in the southern Catskills was thriving. The automobile revitalized mountain tourism and residence, and increased the threat of suburbanization of the historic landscape. Throughout each of these significant incarnations, urban and rural residents worked in a rough collaboration, though not without conflict, to reshape the mountains and American ideas about rural landscapes and nature.
David Stradling is associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati. His focus is the intersection of urban and environmental history. He is author of Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881-1951 and editor of Conservation in the Progressive Era: Classic Texts.
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With unfailing warmth and humor, Cissie Blumberg brings to life the struggles and achievements of two generations of Catskill Mountain hotelkeepers whose devotion to pleasing their city guests became legendary. Her book affords a chance to relieve the region's heyday and to look behind the scenes at what made Sullivan and Ulster Counties the nation's largest, most bustling resort area with over 500 hotels and countless bungalow colonies and camps.
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The Catskills tells the story of one of America's most historically rich and romantic regions. Alf Evers evokes the special charm of the Catskills region with explorations of its flora and fauna, legends, superstitions, and natural and unnatural wonders. Packed with illustrations detailing the history of the Catskills from the time of its first settling through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the Borcht Belt years, the famed Woodstock festival, up to the present, The Catskills is a memorable book that does full justice to a vital vein of our American heritage.
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Covers 60 hikes throughout New Yorks Catskill Mountains. Difficulty ratings, distances, and trailheads, as well as descriptions. Includes information on hiking with children and seasonal concerns. By Carol and David White. 176 pages. Softcover.
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Best known for inspiring the Hudson River School of painting, for 140 years the Catskill Mountain House stood on a roick shelf above the Hudson Valley and facing the River.
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Dr. Robert Titus has revised and enlarged his guide to the geology of New York State's Catskill Mountains for this thrid edition. Written for the layperson, the book explores the 400 million years of geological history hidden in the region's rocks and landscapes. Here are stories of continental collisions, lost mountain ranges, and primitive fossil creatures in an ancient sea. Most of all it is the story of the land of Gilboa, literally a land that time has forgotten.
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The definitive study of such hallowed trout streams as the Beaverkill, the Schoharie, and the Delaware.
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Strap on your snowshoes and discover the Empire State’s best winter playgrounds—the Adirondacks and the Catskills!· 65 routes throughout the Adirondacks and Catskills, many with winter camping opportunities
· Many trails within driving distance of New York City, Albany, Utica, Syracuse, or Saratoga Springs
· Handy quick reference chart lists snowshoe routes by distance, duration, difficulty, and featuresLocated just a few hours’ drive from New York City, the Adirondacks and the Catskills are prime winter destinations for both visitors and locals. In Snowshoe Routes: Adirondacks & Catskills, Bill Ingersoll captures the unique and varied landscapes of the area with 65 different routes. It’s perfect for snowshoers who are looking for easy, family-friendly rambles, or those seeking a challenge on steep terrain. This guide offers outings to hidden lakes, scenic views, mountain tops, and remote wilderness.
Helpful extras include the history and geography of the Adirondacks and the Catskills, information on proper attire and equipment (including tips on choosing the best snowshoes), safety tips for crossing frozen bodies of water, and the basics of winter camping.
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A newly revised and updated guide to a classic fly fishing destination. This newly revised and updated guide to a classic fly fishing destination gives anglers the information they need to: • Fish legendary rivers like the Esopus, Beaver Kill, Neversink, Schoharie, and Willowemoc • Discover many lesser-known streams, with light fishing pressure and plentiful native brookies and other trout • Explore the cold, deep mountain reservoirs—Pepacton, Cannonsville, Schoharie, Neversink, Ashokan, and Rondout—with their miles of undeveloped shorelines and remarkable trophy fish • Fish the Delaware by canoe and find shad in season, as well as trout, bass, and walleye Dozens of maps and local hatch charts provide essential data for the region. 30 black and white photographs, 28 maps, index.
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Threatened with destruction, these historical towers are being preserved through the efforts of volunteer organizations throughout the Adirondack and Catskill Parks. This guide describes 28 fire tower trails, how to get to each, the condition of the tower, and whether or not it's open to the public. Includes historical information and anecdotes, page maps, and current and archival photos. By John P. Freeman. 1st ed. 160 pages, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Softcover.