Talk:Mohonk Preserve

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The page Mohonk Mountain House was created on March 9, 2005, and is now it pretty good shape, IMHO. When I worked on it, I was unaware that the Mohonk Preserve link redirected here. I can see no useful purpose for combining the two, so I am proposing that this article be renamed simply Mohonk Preserve. I will continue to work on expanding it. Mwanner 23:35, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 23:32, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "See Six States"

Every locale has an interest (historical, cultural, or economic) in describing itself as interesting.

Nevertheless, Mohonk Mountain's highest point, the top of the tower at Sky Top, is geographically interesting: you can see six states from up there on a clear day, goes the claim. Is it true? Can anyone verify?

The six are NY (you're in it), CT (closest to E.), MA (CT's not that big), NJ (far side of NYC? Dubious), PA (closer than parts of NJ), and whichever of Vermont or New Hampshire is on the west, I always forget.  :)

For comparison, note the claim discussed in Metropulse about "seeing seven states" - and the problem of smog, and of distances approaching and even beyond 100 miles.

If anyone can verify the Mohonk claim using NPOV sources, please say so. The NYTimes, among other sources, agrees with the claim (and it's Vermont, not New Hampshire, that is west of the other, and just north of Connecticut). See this article.

Eh Nonymous 10:33, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Um, Vermont is just north of MA. (Directly north of CT, yes; just north, no.) --75.69.176.225 (talk) 19:16, 28 March 2008 (UTC)