A modern-day trail guide--complete with GPS locations, newly drawn maps, and modern trail descriptions--to the 19th century trails, viewpoints, and famous locations surrounding the Catskill Mountain House (est. 1823). These were America's first recreational mountain trails, frequented by the Hudson River School painters, Romantic-era writers, and America's pioneering landscape architects. Includes reprints from two classic 19th c. Catskill guidebooks.
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All of the material in this introduction has been presented in greater detail in other sources, but if you are about to begin exploring the area there are a few things that it would be helpful to know. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
conglomerate ledge, blue trail, escarpment trail, old wood road, railway grade, yellow trail, beach parking area, second ledge, spray house, two ledges, red trail, original trail, eastern escarpment, carriage road, unmarked trail, horse trail, picture folder Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mountain House, Hotel Kaaterskill, North Lake, South Mountain, Sunset Rock, Van Loan, Palenville Overlook, Boulder Rock, Pine Orchard, North Mountain, South Lake, Moses Rock, Artist's Rock, Bear's Den, North Point, Inspiration Point, Kaaterskill Clove, Mountain Turnpike, Scutt Road, Kaaterskill Falls, Pudding-Stone Hall, Laurel House, Fairy Spring, Point of Rocks, Mary's Glen New!
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All of the material in this introduction has been presented in greater detail in other sources, but if you are about to begin exploring the area there are a few things that it would be helpful to know. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
conglomerate ledge, blue trail, escarpment trail, old wood road, railway grade, yellow trail, beach parking area, second ledge, spray house, two ledges, red trail, original trail, eastern escarpment, carriage road, unmarked trail, horse trail, picture folder Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mountain House, Hotel Kaaterskill, North Lake, South Mountain, Sunset Rock, Van Loan, Palenville Overlook, Boulder Rock, Pine Orchard, North Mountain, South Lake, Moses Rock, Artist's Rock, Bear's Den, North Point, Inspiration Point, Kaaterskill Clove, Mountain Turnpike, Scutt Road, Kaaterskill Falls, Pudding-Stone Hall, Laurel House, Fairy Spring, Point of Rocks, Mary's Glen New!
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- Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving on 6 pages
- The Catskill Mountain House: America's Grandest Hotel by Roland Van Zandt on 6 pages
- The Catskills in the Ice Age, Revised Edition by Robert Titus on 6 pages
- Their Pilgrimage by Charles Dudley Warner on 4 pages
- Kaaterskill Clove: Where Nature Met Art by Raymond Beecher on page 25, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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