Quote Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs
I'd have to say The Catskills (with more than 30 peaks above 3,500 feet), The Adirondacks (and the 2.3 million acres of State Park), a certain U.S. route that goes over Mt. Monterey, (et al), Lake George, driving down the Hudson Valley to New York City and seeing the layers of billions of years of sediment, looking out at the ocean when you're in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, accessiblity, diversity, and complexity.
Exactly!

I posted some information, with pictures, of upper New York State, including the Catskills, last year.

I have family roots in New York State that go way back to the early Dutch, Palatines from Germany, and then Colonial-period people that migrated from New England to NYS in the 18th Century. A lot of people living today have ancestors with similar migration patterns in the distant past.

As much as I love NYC, the most beautiful scenery is north of the City. We don't hear the word "Pioneers" much for NYS, but there were plenty - and they had just as much of a task surviving as did their fellow trailblazers in other parts of the country.