Ashokan Center, Catskill Park

#131 among attractions in Catskill Park

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The Ashokan Center (formerly the Ashokan Field Campus, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Ashokan Field Campus Historic District is an outdoor education, conference, and retreat center located in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. Schools have used Ashokan's "classroom" of forests, waterfalls, stream-fed ponds, and open meadows for over 40 years. Music camps, blacksmithing conferences, and retreat groups have called Ashokan home while schools are not in residence. The name Ashokan means "place of many fishes" or "where waters converge" in the Iroquois language. ()

Coordinates: 41°55'46"N, 74°12'8"W

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Ashokan Center – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Ashokan Ridge, Ashokan Reservoir, Ticetonyk Mountain, Tonshi Mountain.

4.3 miNE
Mountain
Ashokan Ridge, Catskill Park
109 min walk • Ashokan Ridge is a ridge located in the Catskill Mountains of New York west of Stony Hollow. Morgan Hill is located east, and Gallis Hill is located east-southeast of Ashokan Ridge.
2.9 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Ashokan Reservoir, Catskill Park
74 min walk • The Ashokan Reservoir is a reservoir in Ulster County, New York. It is at the eastern end of the Catskill Park, and is one of several in the region created to provide the City of New York with water.
5.1 miN
Mountain
Ticetonyk Mountain, Catskill Park
131 min walk • Ticetonyk Mountain is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York southeast of Phoenicia. Tremper Mountain is located northwest, and Tonshi Mountain is located east of Ticetonyk Mountain.
4.9 miN
Mountain
Tonshi Mountain, Catskill Park
126 min walk • Tonshi Mountain is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York southeast of Phoenicia. Acorn Hill is located northeast, Ohayo Mountain is located east-northeast, and Little Tonshi Mountain is located west-southwest of Tonshi Mountain.
4.8 miN
Mountain
Little Tonshi Mountain, Catskill Park
124 min walk • Little Tonshi Mountain is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York southeast of Phoenicia. Beetree Hill is located north, and Tonshi Mountain is located east-northeast of Little Tonshi Mountain.
~1370 ftSE
Bridge
Ashokan Bridge, Catskill Park
7 min walk • Ashokan Bridge is a wooden covered bridge over Esopus Creek on the grounds of the Ashokan Center, in Ulster County. It was built in 1885, and is a single span, gable roofed, covered timber bridge. It measures 72 feet, 6 inches, long and 16 feet, 4 inches, wide.
7.1 miNW
Mountain
Samuels Point, Slide Mountain Wilderness Area
182 min walk • Samuels Point is a cliff located in the Catskill Mountains of New York west-northwest of Olivebridge. Mount Pleasant is located north, and South Mountain is located south-southeast of Samuels Point.
4.4 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Ashokan High Point, Catskill Park
113 min walk • Ashokan High Point is a 3,061 feet summit in the Catskill Mountains of New York. The Kanape Brook Trail that leads up to it was formerly used as a wagon track between Samsonville and Watson Hollow in the days of the Catskills tanneries.
5.8 miNW
Park
Emile Brunel Studio and Sculpture Garden, Catskill Park
148 min walk • The Emile Brunel Sculpture Garden and Studio, also known as the Totem Indian Trading Post, Le Chalet Indien, and Brunel Park, is located on Da Silva Road, just off the NY 28 state highway, in Boiceville, Town of Olive, New York, United States. It consists of seven sculptures and three buildings.
3.1 miN
Church
Olive and Hurley Old School Baptist Church, Catskill Park
79 min walk • Olive and Hurley Old School Baptist Church is an historic Baptist meeting house on NY Route 28, at the junction with Ulster County Route 30 in Shokan, New York. It was built in 1857 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
5.1 miN
Tudor Revival architecture
Glen Tonche, Catskill Park
131 min walk • Glen Tonche is an estate atop Mount Tonche, in Ulster County, near Shokan, New York. The estate's house was built in 1928 as the summer family compound of American businessman Raymond Pitcairn, whose family founded PPG Industries.