Catskill Park facts for kids
The Catskill Park is in the Catskill Mountains in New York in the United States. It is made up of 700,000 acres (280,000 ha; 2,800 km2) of land inside in four counties: Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, and Ulster. As of 2005, 287,500 acres (116,300 ha) or 41 percent of the land within, is owned by the state as part of the Forest Preserve. Another 5% is owned by New York City.
Images for kids
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Sign at entry to Catskill Park near southern end, along NY 55 near Napanoch.
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The Ashokan Reservoir as seen from Wittenberg Mountain.
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North-South Lake in the Catskill Forest Preserve
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One of the Park's distinctive yellow and brown highway markers, showing the hamlet of Pine Hill
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