Lake Maratanza is the highest lake in New York's

Shawangunk Ridge The Shawangunk Ridge , also known as the Shawangunk Mountains or The Gunks, is a ridge of bedrock in Ulster County, Sullivan County and Orange County in the state of New York, extending from the northernmost point of the border with New Jerse ...

at 2,245 feet (684 m) above sea level. It is within Sam's Point Preserve. The lake is dammed and supplies drinking water to Ellenville. The outlet brook drains to the other side of the ridge, into the

Verkeerder Kill The Verkeerder Kill, sometimes Verkeerderkill and locally shortened to Kaidy Kill is an stream in Ulster County, New York, United States. It rises on the Shawangunk Ridge, in the Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town of Wawarsing, New ...

, a tributary of the

Shawangunk Kill The Shawangunk Kill is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed October 3, 2011 stream that flows northward through Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties, New York, in the Unite ...

and by extension the

Wallkill River The Wallkill River, a tributary of the Hudson, drains Lake Mohawk in Sparta, New Jersey, flowing from there generally northeasterly U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed Oct ...

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