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Plattekill North Face Trail view. Plattekill Mountain is a privately owned and operated ski resort northwest of Catskill Park in the town of Roxbury, New York.It features a vertical drop of 1,100 feet (340 meters) with 40 trails of varying degrees of difficulty. [1]
Topo map: USGS Woodstock: Plattekill Mountain is a mountain in Greene County, New York. It is located in the Catskill Mountains south of Platte Clove.
Platte Clove, sometimes Plattekill Clove, is a narrow and steep valley in the Catskill Mountains of New York. The valley is situated between Kaaterskill High Peak and Roundtop Mountain to the north and Plattekill Mountain and Indian Head Mountain to the south.
The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province and subrange of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York.As a cultural and geographic region, the Catskills are generally defined as those areas close to or within the borders of the Catskill Park, a 700,000-acre (2,800 km 2) forest preserve protected from many forms of development under ...
It carries many species of game fish, fowl, and amphibians.There is a lean-to and seven designated campsites near the lake. [3] Access is by an 8-mile hiking trail, starting around Platte Clove Preserve (County Route 16) up the Old Overlook Road and then around Plattekill Mountain to a junction culminating in a half-mile section called Echo Lake Trail.
The next mountain in the chain, directly to the north-northeast, is Plattekill Mountain, at 3,100 feet (940 m) dwarfed by its western neighbor, Indian Head Mountain, eastern end of the Devil's Path. To the north of Plattekill the ridge is broken by deep and narrow Platte Clove , the first of three breaks in the Escarpment.
North of Newburgh, the road follows the Newburgh and Sullivan Turnpike to the NY 300 junction and the old Plattekill Turnpike from NY 300 to Ulster County. [14] South of Newburgh, the road became part of the West Shore Route auto trail; from Albany to Watervliet, the road was the northern extension of the New York-Albany-Troy Post Route trail.
Plattekill is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 10,424 in 2020, [2] a slight decrease from 10,499 at the 2010 census. The name is derived from a stream, the Platte Kill. The town of Plattekill is in the southeastern part of the county, immediately north of the town of Newburgh in neighboring Orange County.