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Catskill Mountains

American  
[kats-kil] / ˈkæts kɪl /

plural noun

  1. 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

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

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“She came out to schmooze with the customers, and I went, “This is the one,’” said Siegel, who hails from what he billed “the Jewish Alps” — the Catskill Mountains in New York.

From Los Angeles Times

It was through singing in his church choir while growing up in a small town in New York’s Catskill Mountains that Banks initially fell in love with the choral medium.

From Seattle Times

Grant Cornett is an artist who resides in the Catskill Mountains.

From New York Times

Bob was smitten by magic at an early age, and when he was 12 he and his brother, Walter, performed a mentalist act in the Catskill Mountains, “The Boy With the Radio Mind.”

From New York Times

Twenty-four modular cabins on stilts with floor-to-ceiling windows invite guests to gorge themselves on wraparound views of the Catskill Mountains as they chill out in the treetops.

From New York Times