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    The Shawangunk Ridge /ˈʃɑːwəŋɡʌŋk/, also known as the Shawangunk Mountains or The Gunks, is a ridge of bedrock in Ulster County, Sullivan County and Orange...
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    by the towns of Montgomery and Shawangunk in 1985 and converted to a public trail. The portion of the trail in Shawangunk was formally opened in 1993 and...
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    192nd New York Volunteer Infantry The Lake Mohonk Mountain House on Shawangunk Ridge was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986. According to the...
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    River, such as the New Jersey Palisades, Harriman State Park, the Shawangunk Ridge and the Catskill Mountains. It offers hikers a diversity of environments...
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    widely around the Northeast United States, and especially at New York's Shawangunk Ridge. Although the Appalachian Mountain Club was dominant in the area at...
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    he visited Shawangunk Ridge for the first time, freeclimbing the first pitch of Matinee (the hardest free climb done at Shawangunk Ridge at the time);...
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    Mohonk Preserve (category Shawangunks)
    The Mohonk Preserve is a nature preserve in the Shawangunk Ridge, 90 miles (140 km) north of New York City in Ulster County, New York. The preserve has...
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    between Wallkill and New Paltz, boasts a near-continuous view of the Shawangunk Ridge. From its southern terminus at a busy traffic light in Monroe, NY 208...
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    Silurian Shawangunk Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. It is named for the Shawangunk Ridge for which...
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    Wawarsing, New York (category Shawangunks)
    part of the county. The southern and easternmost portions are on the Shawangunk Ridge. Most of the hilly town is in the Appalachian foothills, while the...
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    features are visible from clear points along the trail, such as the Shawangunk Ridge to the west and the Plattekill Creek between New Paltz and Gardiner...
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    Ellenville, New York (category Shawangunks)
    Shawangunk Scenic Byway. Ellenville lies in the Rondout Valley, at the eastern base of the Catskill Mountains, and the western base of the Shawangunk...
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  • Ulster County Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge, in Ulster County Shawangunk Kill, a tributary of the Wallkill River Shawangunk Ridge, also known...
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    tributary of the Wallkill River. It takes its name from the neighboring Shawangunk Ridge, where it rises in the town of Greenville, then flowing down into the...
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    The Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, also called the Ridge and Valley Province or the Valley and Ridge Appalachians, are a physiographic province of the...
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    Walker Valley, New York (category Shawangunk, New York)
    52 in the western part of town, where it begins to slope up to the Shawangunk Ridge. The community was known as "Jamesburgh" until 1862. Since, it was...
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    Napanoch, New York (category Shawangunks)
    55. The population was 1,131 at the 2020 census. Napanoch is on the Shawangunk Ridge National Scenic Byway, and is part of the Hudson River Valley National...
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    Sam's Point Preserve (category Shawangunks)
    Dwarf Pine Ridge Preserve, is a 4,600-acre (19 km2) preserve in Ulster County on the highest point (2,289 feet [698 m]) of the Shawangunk Ridge in New York...
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    Lake Maratanza (category Shawangunks)
    Lake Maratanza is the highest lake in New York's Shawangunk Ridge at 2,245 feet (684 m) above sea level. It is within Sam's Point Preserve. The lake is...
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    direct land purchases in the past 10 years. Protecting the 43 mile long Shawangunk Ridge Trail has been a priority for the New York - New Jersey Trail Conference...
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    Catskill Mountains by the Shawangunk Ridge and Rondout Valley. In a broader sense, the Wallkill Valley is part of the Ridge-and-Valley physiographic province...
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  • Thousand Islands Tug Hill Catskill Mountains Borscht Belt Hudson Valley Shawangunk Ridge Black Dirt Region (shared with New Jersey) Regions of North Carolina...
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    Mohonk Mountain House (category Shawangunks)
    hotel located south of the Catskill Mountains on the crest of the Shawangunk Ridge, New York. The property lies at the junction of the towns of New Paltz...
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    Spring Glen, New York (category Shawangunks)
    direct access point for parking and hiking to the highest point of the Shawangunk Ridge Trail at over 1800 feet. It has the ZIP Code 12483. It has been settled...
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    Minnewaska State Park Preserve (category Shawangunks)
    Park Preserve is a 22,275-acre (90.14 km2) preserve located on the Shawangunk Ridge in Ulster County, New York on US 44/NY 55, five miles (8.0 km) west...
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    section of the Great Appalachian Valley between the higher rises of the Shawangunk Ridge, visible to the west from some sections of the village, and the Hudson...
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    Otisville Tunnel (category Shawangunks)
    tunnel that carries Metro-North Railroad's Port Jervis Line beneath the Shawangunk Ridge. It is the longest tunnel in the Metro-North system, at 5,314 feet...
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    Falls. Outside of the cities, it offers views of the Hudson Highlands, Shawangunk Ridge, Catskill Mountains, and, during an overlap with US 4 north of Albany...
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    line at that point, with its western boundary a short distance up the Shawangunk Ridge. It is the only population center in Sullivan County entirely within...
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    along 302. Much of Thompson Ridge is elevated, providing sweeping views of the Shawangunk Ridge over the valley of the Shawangunk Kill. A small downtown section...
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