Shady
Shady is a hamlet in Ulster County, New York, United States. It is part of the town of Woodstock and lies on New York State Route 212. The community was named for the fact nearby high ridges often block direct sunlight.- Type: Hamlet
- Description: human settlement in New York, United States of America
- Also known as: “Shady, New York” and “Shady, NY”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cooper Lake and Johns Mountain.
Cooper Lake
Reservoir
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cooper Lake, located near Lake Hill in the Town of Woodstock, Ulster County, New York, is a man made drinking water reservoir. Prior to construction of the dams 100 plus years ago the "lake" was a small pond in the Catskill Mountains.
Johns Mountain
Peak
Johns Mountain is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York northeast of Wittenberg. Beetree Hill is located west, and Mount Tobias is located west-northwest of Johns Mountain.
Beetree Hill
Peak
Beetree Hill is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York north-northeast of Wittenberg. Johns Mountain is located east, and Acorn Hill is located south-southeast of Beetree Hill. Beetree Hill is situated 2 miles southwest of Shady.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Byrdcliffe Colony and West Hurley.
Byrdcliffe Colony
Hamlet
Photo: Dmadeo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Byrdcliffe Colony, also called the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony or Byrdcliffe Historic District, was founded in 1902 near Woodstock, New York by Jane Byrd McCall and Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and colleagues, Bolton Brown and Hervey White.
West Hurley
Village
West Hurley is a hamlet in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 1,917 at the 2020 census. West Hurley is located in the Town of Hurley and is inside the Catskill Park. West Hurley is situated 5 miles southeast of Shady.
Zena
Village
Zena is a hamlet in Ulster County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 1,038. Zena is in the Town of Woodstock on County Route 30. Zena is situated 5 miles southeast of Shady.
Shady
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Woodstock, Ulster County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.06648° or 42° 3′ 59″ northLongitude
-74.15931° or 74° 9′ 34″ westElevation
974 feet (297 metres)Open location code
87J73R8R+H7OpenStreetMap ID
node 158843577OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Volapük—“Shady” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “謝迪 (紐約州)”
- Chinese: “謝迪”
- Volapük: “Shady (New York)”
- Volapük: “Shady (NY)”
- Volapük: “Shady, New York”
- Volapük: “Shady, NY”
- Volapük: “Shady”
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