The Catskill Mountain House, built in 1824, was a hotel near Palenville, New York, in the Catskill Mountains overlooking the Hudson River Valley. In its prime at the turn of the century, visitors included United States Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Chester A. Arthur and Theodore Roosevelt. read more
The Catskill Mountains are not really mountains at all! They are actually the remains of a what were originally river deposits from material eroded from older mountains to the east of the Catskills in New England, called the Acadian Mountains. read more
Catskill Mountains, New York The Devonian Catskill Formation or the Catskill clastic wedge is a unit of mostly terrestrial sedimentary rock found in Pennsylvania and New York. Minor marine layers exist in this thick rock unit (up to 10,000 feet (3,000 m)). read more