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Monday, October 16, 2006

Parc d'État de Catskill - Catskill State Park -


To tell the truth, I would like to see the Kaaterskill Falls - the picture above - in Catskill State Park in NY.

The Catskill State Park, also called Catskill Park, is in the Catskill Mountains in New York in the United States. It consists of 700,000 acres (2,800 km²) of land inside a Blue Line in four counties: Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, and Ulster. As of 2005 there are 287,514 acres (1,150 km²), or 41 percent of the land within, owned by the state as part of the Forest Preserve; it is managed by the Department of Environmental Conversation (DEC). Another 5% is owned by New York City to protect four of the city’s reservoirs in the region that lie partially within the park and their respective watersheds.
Being the smaller and less well-known of New York’s two Forest Preserves, residents of and advocates for the Park often feel that it gets neglected by the state government in Albany. A popular saying in the region is that the DEC Commissioner's chair faces north (i.e., toward the Adirondacks).
- from Wikipedia, Catskill State Park

In One Way or Another, the right after seeing the American landscape painting, "A Gorge in the Mountains" - the photo above - by Sanford Robinson Gifford at the Met, I got the urge to see the real view!
According to some blogs, we can reach the park only 1-2 hours drive from Manhatten. Besides, we must be able to enjoy the fall foliage also if going there around this season! Hence, nowadays I have always dreamed of visiting the Catskill State Park♪

P.S. Gifford spent his childhood in Hudson, New York.

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