by Chris Clemens Early one morning in the Catskills I rounded the curve of a road I had never driven before. Opening up from a wooded residential landscape into a wide open sky over a quiet Swan Lake, the road soon was lined with a curiously out-of-place looking stone wall opposite from the lake. A bit further […]
by Chris Clemens New York State Route 97 has a long and winding history. That history now includes a short stretch of iconic New York highway known as Hawk’s Nest. For 70 miles, it connects three counties along the New York/Pennsylvania border. The roadway stretches from Hancock, New York in Delaware County all the way […]
by Chris Clemens Nestled in the sleepy hills of a once-bustling section of the Catskill Mountains in Sullivan County lie a number of former resorts and hotels, now overtaken by their natural surroundings. The mid-1900’s were a time when the city-folk packed up their wood-paneled station wagons and headed ‘upstate’ for the summer to seasonal […]
by Chris Clemens It might seem that passing over the Delaware River from New York into Pennsylvania on the country’s oldest existing wire suspension bridge would be a precarious adventure. But now that I’ve done it, I can vouch for the 535 feet of sturdy passage and safely recommend an experience that any regional explorer should want […]
by Chris Clemens While traveling this summer, I made kind of an out of the way stop to pay homage to a location I have wanted to experience for years since first reading about it. Woodstock, New York is possibly one of the coolest little towns I have visited and can’t wait to return. The […]