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Saturday, June 29. 2019

A free ad for Mohonk


This is Mohonk's 150th Anniversary. Still owned by the Quaker Smiley family, and still on Conde Nast's list of 100 best hotels in the world. Not sure I would agree with the latter (it is rustic and a bit stuffy), but it's a unique place with thousands of acres with hills, cliff, farmland, mountain lakes, etc. Great hiking trails, and challenging bouldering not to mention rock climbing. I've been going there since I was a little kid, first did the Labyrinth when I was 12.


Our hiking team is doing an Uncle Bob Memorial Hike up there this week, with a late lunch at their cookout place (there were no more reservations for brunch at the inn). I will focus on bouldering routes, but I have alternates for those who are uneasy scrambling big rocks.


Posted by Bird Dog in Travelogues and Travel Ideas at 14:34 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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I'm glad that you've introduced your readers to Mohonk, I hadn't heard of it. We tend to go back to the same places our parents went to, and a few others in our small circle. Since I love to explore, I hope to check out this one of the "100 best" soon.
#1 LP on 2019-06-30 17:00 (Reply)
Looks nice, but day rates in the $1000 range are bit out of my 5% level.....
#2 sch on 2019-07-01 00:30 (Reply)
No, it can be less than that.

Still, a lot comes with it.
#2.1 Bird Dog on 2019-07-01 08:31 (Reply)
Just got for breakfast, lunch or dinner, hike etc and then stay in New Paltz which is like 10 minutes away... Funky college town.
#2.2 jack on 2019-07-01 11:31 (Reply)
Assuming free access to trails, other options as Jack suggests would be handy. Used to do that when we went to the Smokies,
always cheaper in Pigeon Forge and better restaurants. But that was before the trees started going away, first the spruces, then the hemlocks, then the great fire in 2016, likely mostly covered up by now with the rate of regrowth there.
#3 sch on 2019-07-01 17:27 (Reply)
If you reserve a mean the trails are free and you can park up by the Main House. If you just pay for hiking it's like $25 and you either take a shuttle up to the house or walk it (maybe 2 miles).

But since the breakfast is only like $45 it's worth it to me not to have to walk the 2 miles up and down. lol
#3.1 jack on 2019-07-02 11:22 (Reply)

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