Rediscover the lost and forgotten sites of the golden age of the Catskills. This is a state-of-the-art hiking guide to the trails around the Catskill Mountain House—the first recreational mountain trails in the United States.
Featuring newly drawn maps, GPS coordinates, and precise modern trail descriptions, and embellished with 19th-century descriptions and dozens of period illustrations, this book guides the reader along the historic footpaths that inspired writers and poets like James Fenimore Cooper and William Cullen Bryant, the pioneering artists of the Hudson River School like Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, and Frederic Church, and America’s first landscape architects—Calvert Vaux, Andrew Jackson Downing, and Frederic Law Olmsted.
Includes Samuel Rusk’s 1879 map of the Catskills, plus reprintings from Rusk’s rare and out-of-print “An Illustrated Guide to the Catskill Mountains” and Van Loan’s classic “Catskill Mountain Guide.”
paper, 6 x 9, 240 pages, maps, illustrations, GPS coordinates,
$16.95,
ISBN 1-883789-45-1