Lake Mohonk is located in

Ulster County, New York Ulster County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It is situated along the Hudson River. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 181,851. The county seat is Kingston, ...

, United States. It is located approximately northwest of

Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie ( ) is a city within the Town of Poughkeepsie, New York. It is the county seat of Dutchess County, with a 2020 census population of 31,577. Poughkeepsie is in the Hudson River Valley region, midway between the core of the New ...

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lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...

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Mohonk Mountain House The Mohonk Mountain House, also known as Lake Mohonk Mountain House, is a resort hotel located south of the Catskill Mountains on the crest of the Shawangunk Ridge, New York. The property lies at the junction of the towns of New Paltz, Marblet ...

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The small lake, long and deep, is located above sea level in the town of New Paltz near Sky Top Mountain, at one of the highest peaks of the

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 Jers ...

. The peak of Sky Top lies just east of the south end of the lake; to the west, Eagle Cliff rises to a height of . Competitors in the Survival of the Shawangunks swim the lake as their final aquatic leg of the competition. File:Lake Among the Hills by William Hart, 1858.jpg, alt=Lake surrounded by hills, under a cloudy sky, ''Lake Among the Hills'' (1858) by William Hart, on display at the

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File:On Lake Mohonk, Eerie Railway, 1881.jpg, Lake Mohonk, 1881 File:The Wallkill Valley in art and story (1899) (14753574036).jpg, Lake Mohonk, 1899 File:Lake Mohonk, Ulster County, New York (2011).jpg, Lake Mohonk, 2011

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Mohonk The Mohonk Preserve is a nature preserve in the Shawangunk Ridge, north of New York City in Ulster County, New York. The preserve has over of cliffs, forests, fields, ponds and streams, with over of carriage roads and of trails for hiking, c ...

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