The Wildmere House
The Cliff House
S located on the summit of the Shawangunk Mountains, ten milessouthwest of New Paltz, in Ulster County, New York. New Paltz, a stationon the Wallkill Valley Railroad, is eighty-eight miles (about three andone-half hours) distant from New York; nine miles west of Poughkeepsie,on the Hudson, and fifteen miles southwest of Kingston. N.Y.
This lake, which is fed by springs and is very deep and clear ascrystal, is held in a strikingly picturesque, rocky and well-woodedbowl, rising one hundred and fifty feet above the lake on the easternside and sixty feet on the western, and from either edge the rockstumble precipitously down to the Wallkill and Hudson River Valleys onthe one side, and to the Rondout Valley on the other.
Minnewaska is now widely known as a summer resort:
First. For the remarkably bracing and restoring quality of itsatmosphere. It being on the crown of a ridge, dew seldom falls. Thedrainage of each house is away from the lake and far down the mountainside, and the hills all around are covered with resinous pine forests.
Second. For the remarkably select character of the guests who frequentthe place, a large portion of whom return year after year.
Third. For the wonderful and unique combination of the grand and thepicturesque in its scenery.
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