![]() ![]() ![]() Each of the major Catskills counties-Ulster, Delaware, Sullivan, and Greene-has noted increases in tourism. “The Catskills are experiencing an incredible renaissance in the travel and tourism market,” says Roberta Byron-Lockwood, president of the Sullivan Catskills Visitors Association. Amid the Catskills’ 35 high peaks and nearly 6,000 square miles-which include waterfalls, ice caves, rocky cliffs, and fly-fishing spots-several of those downtrodden resorts have been reborn or revamped, and shuttered or ailing smaller motels, hotels, guesthouses, and inns-not to mention a major casino complex-have recently opened, or are just about to. Once-glorious resorts that populated the mountainous region north and west of New York City in the middle of the last century-the Catskills’ golden age-were now decayed carcasses littering the landscape, with lonely lounge chairs abandoned next to parched Olympic-sized pools.īut a funny thing has happened on the way to the Catskills: Hoteliers started to take notice of the area again. In 2016, photographer Marisa Scheinfeld released The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland, a collection of ghostly photos of the western Catskills that seemed to capture the area’s fate. ![]()
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