As viewed from Catskill Mountain House Site. This is part of a big farm belt of rich soils that runs about 5 miles away, parallel to the Palenville ridge.

The deep cut into the earth is not from mining, but the cut and fill of the NYS Thruway which forever has left a great gash in the landscape. But it's fast, to get cars racing from Albany to NYC the proponets say.

In these barns, laid out so nicely along Cauterskill Road are thousands of chickens producing eggs for the commerical egg market. They really stick out as one views them from the Catskill Mountain House Ruins.