Catskills
The Catskills of New York are a popular vacation destination for New Yorkers, but they also have much to offer the traveler from out of state. Largely rural and wild, the Catskills are adjacent to the Poconos region of Pennsylvania.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Kingston and Newburgh.
Destinations to Discover
Places to explore: Orange County and Ulster County.
Greene County
Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York.
Catskills
- Type: Mountain
- Description: mountain range in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York
- Also known as: “Blue Hills”, “Catskill Mountains”, “Catskill-bjergene”, “Catskills Mountains”, “Catskillske gore”, “Great Blue Hills”, “Kaats Kill Mountains”, “Kaatsbergs”, “Kaatserskill”, “Katsberg”, “Katskills”, “Kattskills”, “Monts Catskill”, “Muntanyes Catskill”, “On-ti-o-ra”, “The Catskills”, “Каатскильские горы”, “Катскилы”, “Катскильские горы”, “קעטסקיל בערג”, “캣츠킬 산맥”, and “卡茲凱爾斯地區”
- Category: mountain range
- Location: Greene County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
42.2504° or 42° 15′ 1″ north
Longitude of center
-74.2499° or 74° 14′ 60″ west
Elevation
1,637 feet (499 metres)
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Catskills” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبال كاتسكيل”
- Basque: “Catskill mendiak”
- Catalan: “Catskill Mountains”
- Cebuano: “Catskill Mountains”
- Chinese: “卡茨基尔山”
- Chinese: “卡茨基爾山”
- Croatian: “Planine Catskill”
- Czech: “Catskill Mountains”
- Danish: “Catskill Mountains”
- Dutch: “Catskillgebergte”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبال كاتسكيل”
- Esperanto: “Katskil-Montaro”
- Estonian: “Catskilli mäed”
- Finnish: “Catskillvuoret”
- French: “montagnes Catskill”
- French: “Montagnes Catskill”
- German: “Catskill Mountains”
- German: “Catskills”
- Hebrew: “הרי קטסקיל”
- Hungarian: “Catskills, El Monaco”
- Indonesian: “Pegunungan Catskill”
- Irish: “Sléibhte Catskill”
- Italian: “Monti Catskill”
- Japanese: “キャッツキル山地”
- Kazakh: “Катскилл таулары”
- Korean: “캐츠킬산맥”
- Ladin: “Catskill Mountains”
- Lithuanian: “Katskilio kalnai”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Catskill Soaⁿ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Catskill Mountains”
- Polish: “Catskill (góry)”
- Polish: “Catskill”
- Portuguese: “Montanhas Catskill”
- Russian: “Катскилл”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Planine Catskill”
- Slovenian: “Catskill Mountains”
- Spanish: “Montañas de Catskill”
- Swedish: “Catskillbergen”
- Turkish: “Catskill Dağları”
- Ukrainian: “Катскілл”
- Venetian: “Monti Catskill”
- Western Frisian: “Catskillberchtme”
- Yiddish: “קעטסקילס”
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