- Byrdcliffe - America's oldest continuing Arts and Crafts colony located just outside of Woodstock. You can take a one hour walking tour. See also Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony (2004) and The Utopias of Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead," by Robert Edwards, The Magazine Antiques, January 1985, pp. 260-76. The Winterthur Museum's Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts & Printed Ephemera has a Byrdcliffe collection consisting of approx. 3500 items which include "letters, records of what was produced at Byrdcliffe, photographs, study prints, drawings, depictions of decorative motifs, the colony's guest register, arts and crafts periodicals, trade catalogues, books on handicraft, and the card catalogue of Byrdcliffe's library. Though most of the photographs show Byrdcliffe and its main residence, White Pines, some depict Arcady, the Whitehead's California residence." Winterthur also provides information about the Byrdcliffe Arts & Craft Colony.
- Catskill Art Society - Livingston Manor
- Catskill Mountain Foundation - Hunter. Their Catskill Guide is searchable and has archives back to 2000.
- Helen M. Turner, American Impressionist - Master's Thesis on Helen Maria Turner (1858-1958) submitted by Maia Jalenak, to the Department of Art History, Louisiana State University, 2003. Chapter 7 describes the Cragsmoor Art Colony which flourished from 1870 to 1920.
- Onteora Park - Tannersvile. Artists' colony in the Catskills founded by Candace Wheeler in 1887. Wheeler (18271924) was a textile artist and interior designer. See her Principles of Home Decoration With Practical Examples (1902) (Project Gutenberg) which has photographs of
Dining-room in "Pennyroyal" (in Mrs. Boudinot Keith's Cottage, Onteora),
Sitting Room iin "Wild Wood." Onterora (Belonging to Miss Lusita Leland),
Large sitting-room in "Star Rock" (country house of W.E. Connor, Esq., Onteora),
Rustic sofa and tables in "Penny-royal" (Mrs. Boudinot Keith's cottage, Onteora) and
Dining-room in "Star Rock" (country house of W.E. Connor, Esq., Onteora).
See also the profile of
Candace Wheeler in Women Working 1800 - 1930, part of Harvard's Open Collections Program which has the texts of
How to Make Rugs (1902),
The Annals of Onteora, 1887-1914,
Yesterdays in a Busy Life and
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York had an exhibition on Wheeler in October, 2001 entitled Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design, 18751900 which includes Images of her work. It was accompanied by a 288-page catalogue -
Candace Wheeler: the Art and Enterprise of American Design, 18751900 by Amelia Peck. Additional information on Onteora Park is provided in Advertising the Catskills: the Natural Enchantment by Karin Edmondson, a publicaton of the Catskill Mountain Foundation, August 2003.
- Catskill Center for Conservation and Development - Arkville. Catskill Fire Tower Restoration Project is working to restore Balsam Lake Mountain Fire Tower, Hunter Mountain Fire Tower, the Overlook Mountain Fire Tower, the Red Hill Fire Tower and the Tremper Mountain Fire Tower
- Catskill Mountain Foundation - Hunter. Their Catskill Guide is searchable and has archives back to 2000.
- Friends of the Upper Delaware River
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Land of Little Rivers: Fly Fishing in the Catskills
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
- Region 3
- Region 4
- Sierra Club: Atlantic Chapter
- Beaverkill Trout Club - 1254 Beaverkill Road
- Catskill Flies - Roscoe. Has information on Regional Stream Conditions
- The Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum - Livingston Manor (845-439-4810)
- Fly Fishers Club of Brooklyn
- Salmo Fontinalis Club
- Trout Fishing in the Catskills (2007) - by Ed Van Put
- Trout Unlimited: Upper Delaware Chapter
- Wulff School of Fly Fishing - Lew Beach
- Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles - In the Digital Archives are articles on popular sports from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as contemporary research journals. A search for Beaverkill, for example, locates the following articles in Outing (1883-1915) all in pdf format. (Locate these full-text articles via their Search page.)
- Tying the Floating Fly by Robert S. Lemmon, Outing Magazine, 1915, Volume_65,
- An Outing near New York. - Outing, 1888 May Vol. XII No. 2 p. 154-159
- The Cruise of the Sybaris and Shaw Shaw. Part II. - The Beaver Kill and the East Branch - By Edward L. Chichester, Outing, June 1889, Vol. XIV, No. 3, p. 217-225.
- Tying the Floating Fly: Dealing with the Beaverkill, a "Regular Dry Fly," and also Special Patterns and the Scale-Wing Fly - by Robert S. Lemmon, Outing Magazine, 1915, Vol. 65, pp. 417-421.
- Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) - Library of Congress collection of measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Search by keyword or browse by subject or geographic location. There are photographs and data for:
- Beaverkill Bridge - Craigie Claire Road, Sullivan County. Constructed in 1865.
"The Beaverkill Bridge is a distinctive regional variation of a Town lattice truss with fanlike radiating planks in the end panels. It is the best preserved of three surviving examples of this type, all of which are attributed to John Davidson, a local carpenter-builder."
- Catskill Archive - Full-text books include
- In The Catskills (1910) by John Burroughs
- John Burroughs - Boy And Man (1920) by Clara Barrus
- The Catskills (1918) by T. Morris Longstreth
- The Catskill Mountains And The Region Around (1867) by Rev. Charles Rockwell
- Catskills Institute - "Educational organization, incorporated through the New York State Board of Regents, that is dedicated to understanding the past and preserving the record of Jewish life in the Catskill Mountains." Site offeres Catskill stories, memoirs, bibliographies, photographs, a Hotel List and information on the August 27 - 29, 1999 conference at Sunny Oaks Hotel, Woodridge, New York.
- Civilian Conservation Corps - Camps were located at Margaretville, Tannersville, Breakabeen, Boiceville, McClure and Masonville.
- History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York... by Jay Gould (1856)
- Making of America - "Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction" at the University of Michigan and Cornell. It includes books and journals and is searchable. You can browse title list of journals available at Cornell and Michigan. Relevant titles include:
- An Old Church in the Catskills by Rev. B. J.Reilly, Catholic World, Volume: 61, Issue: 363, June 1895, pp. 305-317. "At Phoenicia there is a branch road, called the Stony Clove, which runs to the Kaaterskill Hotel and the village of Hunter. In order that we may reach the little old Church of St. Henry's..."
- Speckled Trout - By John Burroughs: Atlantic Monthly, Vol XXVI [26], October, 1870, pp. 429-440. "In the number of this magazine for July, 1869, under the head of "Birch Browsings," I gave some account of a region that lies about the head-waters of the Delaware....Since the expedition to Thomas Lake, described in that paper, I have made another excursion to those woods..." Thomas Lake was owned by James Spencer Van Cleef in 1870. He sold it to Rev. James C. Beecher, brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, in 1874, when it became known as Beecher Lake. [Some Hit and Miss Chat, by Halston, New York Times, August 27, 1886, p. 2 and A Preacher's Hermitage: Life at Beecher Lake, Where the Rev. James Beecher Finds Solitude and Happiness in the Wilderness, New York Times, October 29, 1879, p. 2. Both articles are available free in the New York Times Archives]
- Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon - By Washington Irving. Story of Rip Van Winkle from the Village of Falling Waters starts on page 44. "Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains."
- Beaverkill Valley Inn - Lew Beach. The Beaverkill is one of the great trout rivers in America. Beaverkill and Willowemoc Creek are considered to be the birthplace of American fly fishing. Built in 1895 and known as the Bonnie View.
- Cafe de Paris Bed and Breakfast - Margaretville (845-586-1000)
- Deer Mountain Inn - Tannersville
- La Duchesse Anne - Mt. Tremper (845-688-5260)
- Emerson Resort & Spa - Mount Tremper (877-688-2828)
- Forest Preserve Public Campgrounds - New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. There are also links to DEC Campgrounds in the Catskills including:
- Little Pond Campground - Andes
- Mongaup Pond - Livingston Manor
- Minnewaska Lodge - Gardiner
- Mohonk Mountain House - New Paltz. Non-guests can call 845-256-2056 to make dinner reservations (jacket required).
- Onteora Mountain House - Boiceville. Former 1930's summer estate of mayonnaise mogul Richard Hellmann.
- Straus Center - Claryville. Owned by the Frost Valley YMCA.
- Washington Irving Inn - Hunter (518-589-5560)
- Cedar Grove: The Thomas Cole National Historic Site - 218 Spring Street, Catskill
- Opus 40 and the Quarryman's Museum - Saugerties
- Catskill Daily Mail
- Hancock Herald
- New York Times - Free archives from 1987. Nelson Bryant writes about fishing. Catskill-related articles:
- Catskills Discover Life After Borscht - By Peter Applebome, New York Times, July 24, 2005.
- Large and Small Footprints on a Trail by Jane Margolies, New York Times, August 20, 2004. Describes the Seager-Big Indian Trail which starts in Seager.
- Livingston Manor Journal; A Fishing Magnet in the Catskills, Reeling in More Than Just Anglers - By Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, June 13, 2004.
- Rituals; In the Catskills, the Ties That Bind by James Prosek, April 9, 2004. "Just upstream from Roscoe on the Beaverkill, in Lew Beach, resides Joan Wulff, often called the first lady of fly-fishing. Ms. Wulff is a casting champion who has run a fly-fishing school (originally with her husband, Lee) on the Beaverkill since 1979. Ed Van Put, a historian of the region, came to live in Livingston Manor, southeast of Roscoe, more than 30 years ago and works for the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Mr. Van Put raises his own roosters for their prized hackle feathers, which he uses to tie variations of his favorite fly pattern, the Adams."
- Havens; Weekender: Roscoe, N.Y.- By Sandra Hurtes, January 2, 2004.
- Outdoors: Remote Streams Worth the Effort by Nicholas Karas, New York Times, June 28, 2000. "Fishing Junction Pool is one of the required rites of spring for all Catskills anglers."
- Always Chasing Rainbows: Trout Season Begins - By Stephen C. Sautner, New York Times, April 2, 1997.
- Hooked: A Magnificent Obsession; Brodhead and Beaverkill - By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times, August 4, 1995.
- The Thomas Cole House May Become Historic Site - By Harold Faber, New York Times, May 30, 1994. See Cedar Grove: The Thomas Cole National Historic Site
- Reversing Rural Blight in the Catskills - By Richard D. Lyons, New York Times, October 11, 1987.
- One Man's Efforts Conserve Catskills Valley - By Michael Winerip, New York Times, February 19, 1985.
- Oneonta Daily Star
- History exhibit rocks Gilboa: Fossil trees get new display kiosk - September 29, 2000
- Stamford board working on returning park to former glory [Mount Utsayantha] - August 2, 2003
- Times Herald-Record
- Rocky revolution: A little trouble in big paradise - By Barbara Gref, Times Herald-Record, 22 July 2000.
- I didn't 'buy' Lew Beach, I gave it a boost by Larry Rockefeller, Times Herald-Record, 6 August 2000. "Contrary to the headline, wilderness in the Beaverkill is for everyone, with two-thirds of the valley tens of thousands of acres preserved by New York state as "forever wild." In fact, the most spectacular scenic and recreational spots are publicly owned, including Big Pond, Alder Lake, Little Pond Campground, Beaverkill Covered Bridge Campground, and are enjoyed every day by a broad range of people." See also Holy Waters - by Monte Burke, Forbes, 16 August 2004.
- Town Crier - Deposit
- Baxter House River Outfitters - Roscoe (607-290-4022)
- Border Water Outfitters - Hancock
- Catskill Flies - Roscoe. Has information on Regional Stream Conditions
- Catskill Hiking Shack - Wurtsboro
- Catskill Outfitters - Walton (800-631-0105 or 607-865-8827)
- Outback Outfitters Guiding Service - Cochecton (845-932-8598 or 518-251-5731)
- Rock & Snow - New Paltz
- Wulff School of Fly Fishing - Lew Beach
- Mohonk Preserve
- Mountain Top Arboretum - Tannersville
- Nature Conservancy: New York - The Eastern New York Chapter has a Catskill Mountain Program.
- Land Protection in the Catskill Mountains
- Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River - National Park Service. Located in Pike and Wayne (PA) and Delaware, Orange and Sullivan (NY) counties along the Delaware River. There is a detailed map of the park (pdf format).
Sam's Point Dwarf Pine Ridge Preserve - Ulster County. Site of Verkeerderkill Falls.
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation - Information on
- Catskill Forest Preserve
- Balsam Lake Mountain Wild Forest
- Big Indian Wilderness Area
- Bluestone Wild Forest
- Dry Brook Ridge Wild Forest - Delaware County
- Halcott Mountain Wild Forest - Greene County
- Hunter Mountain
- Kaaterskill Wild Forest
- Overlook Mountain Wild Forest
- Shandaken Wild Forest
- Slide Mountain Wilderness
- Sundown Wild Forest
- Westkill Mountain Wilderness Area
- Willowemoc Wild Forest
- New York State Parks
- Minnewaska State Park Preserve
- Oquaga Creek State Park
- Open Space Institute
- Beaverkill Valley
- Beech Mountain Nature Preserve - 295-acres
- Trust for Public Land - See New York State Project Highlights
- Ardsley House Historic Fly Fishing Lodge ($1,295,000.00) - Lew Beach. Craig's List. Offered by agent Darlene ODell, Yeager Realty.
- Buffalo Zach's Cafe - Roscoe (607-498-4149)
- Resort - Livingston Manor. Serves "contemporary Catskill farm food."
- Stissing House Restaurant & Tavern - Michel & Patricia Jean, Pine Plains (518-398-8800)
- Beaverkill Press
- Duke Pottery - Roscoe
- Hamish and Henry Booksellers - Livingston Manor
- Romancing the Woods Woodstock (914-246-6976). "We are America's leading designer and custom builder of rustic exterior garden structures and garden furniture."
- Steve Heller's Fabulous Furniture - Boiceville
- Catskill Region Today - Catskill Association for Tourism Services
- Delaware County Chamber of Commerce - Delhi
- Greene County Tourism
- Kaatskill Life: A Regional Journal - Delhi (607-746-2176)
- Roscoe New York Chamber of Commerce
- Adirondack Mountain Club
- Appalachian Mountain Club
- Catskill Mountain Club
- Catskill 3500 Club
- Hodge Pond Hike
- Delaware & Ulster Rail Road - Has information on the Catskill Scenic Trail. This "19 mile trail offers a hard-packed surface that makes it perfect for hiking, biking, horseback riding and cross country skiing. A unique feature of this trail is a very gentle grade."
- Hunter Mountain - With information on Outdoor Activities
- Kaaterskill Falls - Hunter
- New York-New Jersey Trail Conference - Has information on the Long Path and has a Hike of the Week section. Provides full-text access to Trailwalker newsletter back to 1999.
- Sam's Point Dwarf Pine Ridge Preserve - Nature Conservancy property in Cragsmoor "contains one of the best examples of a ridge top dwarf pine barrens in the world, providing spectacular views of the Catskill Mountains, Verkeerderkill Falls, and caves that shelter snow and ice well into the summer." See also Hike of the Week, New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, 9/04/03.
- Rails to Trails Conservancy
- Shawangunk Ridge - Has information on hiking.
- Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River - National Park Service. Located in Pike and Wayne (PA) and Delaware, Orange and Sullivan (NY) counties along the Delaware River. There is a detailed map of the park (pdf format).
- Wallkill Valley Rail Trail
