Things To Do
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The Catskills are well known in American culture, both as the setting for many 19th-century Hudson River School paintings and as the favored destination for urban vacationers from New York City in the mid-20th century. The region's many large resorts gave countless young stand-up comedians an opportunity to hone their craft. The Catskills have long been a haven for artists, musicians, and writers. It was also the setting for the movie "Dirty Dancing."
Esopus Creek is a 65.4-mile tributary of the Hudson River. It flows across Ulster County to the Hudson River at Saugerties. It is famous for tubing, a sport of rafting down a river in an inner tube. Many tubers begin their trip at Phoenicia, New York and head down the creek towards the Ashokan Reservoir at Olive, New York.
Activities in the Catskills region: