Catskill Mountain Scenic Byway
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 1, 2015 - 3:44 pm
After 30 years of planning, it took less than a year to get the Maurice D. Hinchey Catskill Interpretive Center in the Ulster County hamlet of Mount Tremper from groundbreaking to ribbon-cutting.
Hundreds of people gathered to watch former Congressman... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2015 - 8:41 pm
It's taken seven years, but Route 28 in Ulster and Delaware counties has finally received legislative approval to become the Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway, according to a press release from New York State Senator James Seward.
Seward made the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 18, 2013 - 4:09 pm
Scenic route is scenic. Photo of New York State Route 28 by Flickr user Doug Kerr; published under Creative Commons license.
On Tuesday, March 12, the town board of Olive voted 3-2 to approve a resolution in support of a plan to get a 50-mile stretch of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 11, 2012 - 12:48 pm
The conversation over the Catskill Scenic Byway Project continues. For background, click here and here. -- Julia Reischel
To the Editor,
The Scenic By-way Plan for Route 28 has been misunderstood, misrepresented, misinterpreted and mistakenly attacked for... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 - 4:21 pm
Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway CMP Draft
Above: The current draft of a plan to apply for state and federal scenic byway designation for a section of Route 28. Members of the Central Catskills Collaborative, a seven-municipality task force that drafted... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 - 8:27 am
A meeting in the town of Shandaken to discuss applying for scenic byway status for a roughly 50-mile stretch of Route 28, which was postponed several weeks ago, has been rescheduled. The meeting will be held tonight at the Shandaken town hall, at 6pm.
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012 - 11:15 am
A hearing on the Route 28 Scenic Byway project, scheduled for tonight at 6pm in the Shandaken Town Hall, has been postponed. The byway meeting conflicted with an important Onteora School Board meeting on the reconfiguration of the district's elementary... Read more
By wateradmin on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012 - 12:10 pm
Photo of Route 28 road signs by Daniel Case. From Wikimedia Commons, published under Creative Commons license.
Much has been said, with much more likely remaining to be said, about ongoing efforts to gain a scenic byway designation for a 50-mile section... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 17, 2011 - 11:42 am
After a winter of designing and judging, the Central Catskills Collaborative has chosen a new logo for the newly-christened Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway, the stretch of Rte. 28 that runs from Hurley to Andes.
You can see the winning logo above.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010 - 12:57 pm
Rte. 28 between Hurley and Andes already has a new name: the Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway. And now, the Central Catskills Collaborative is hosting a design contest to come up with a logo for the route.
Anyone who is unsatisfied with the new logo for... Read more