Catskills Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
mountain range in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York
About Catskills
The Catskills mean different things to different groups of people. To most residents ofDownstate New York, they evoke summer camps, weekend homes and the vast reservoirs that supply clean, pure water to New York City. To historians of American popular culture they are home to the majority of the "Borscht Belt" resorts, where many legendary entertainers honed their skills before predominantly Jewish audiences, and where a later generation thronged to a dairy farm for "three days of peace, love and music" called the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. To art historians, they are the landscapes that captivated Thomas Cole, Frederick Church and the other painters of the Hudson River School, America's first homegrown art movement. To fly fishermen, they are the streams where the first dry flies w
Top Attractions in Catskills
Explore the best things to see and do in Catskills:
- ★Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum
- ★Hunter Mountain
- ★North-South Lake
- ★Opus 40
Catskills Travel Guide Sections
Our comprehensive guide covers 15 sections including: