Catskill Mountains

American

[kats-kil] / ˈkæts kɪl /

plural noun

a range of low mountains in E New York: resort area. Highest peak, Slide Mountain, 4,204 feet (1,281 meters).

Catskill Mountains British

/ ˈkætskɪl /

plural noun

Also called: Catskills. a mountain range in SE New York State: resort. Highest peak: Slide Mountain, 1261 m (4204 ft)

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Catskill Mountains

Every summer we would go to the Catskill Mountains for a week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

McCutcheon’s father attempts to control her by sending her to the Catskill Mountains.

From Slate ● May 27, 2024

After several informal hangouts at Somers’s Los Angeles home, Byrne and her collaborators regrouped in January 2022 at a cozy studio in New York’s Catskill Mountains.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

After years splitting time between Long Island City and a cozy house in the Catskill Mountains that she purchased in 2008, the couple moved upstate permanently in 2018.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2022

Only a few lived on in the Adirondacks and the Catskill Mountains.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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