View of the Catskills from the Hudson Highlands
The best north-facing views the author has seen in the Hudson Highlands are from Storm King Mountain, Beacon Mountain, and Bull Hill. These are along the northern escarpment of the Hudson Highlands, and they look directly down onto Newburgh and the Walkill Valley. A view of the Catskills is also possible from various places in Harriman State Park, and the Sterling Forest Fire Tower. The Shawangunk Ridge cut across the field of vision directly in front of the Catskills, a low but massive, dark, flat ridge. A rock outcrop forms a horizontal white stripe near the top. Behind them, a little lighter in color due to the haze, the peaks of a large mountain range loom, steep in some places and rounded in others. Slide Mountain is the first to catch the eye, a head taller than the rest, with its distinctive steep eastern slope and gradual western ridge. Its neighboring peaks surround it like waves on a choppy sea: Wittenburg, Cornell, the so-called Bushwhack Range, Peekamoose and Table Moun