A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
From the record
“The Mohonk Mountain House, also known as Lake Mohonk Mountain House or simply Lake Mohonk, is a resort hotel located south of the Catskill Mountains on the crest of the Shawangunk Ridge in New York. The property lies at the junction of the towns of New Paltz, Marbletown, and Rochester.”
Wikipedia article Mohonk Mountain House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1973 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.73001280- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
189 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Lake Mohonk Mountain House Complex
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 215 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 30 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
83
Smoking
31
Arson/incendiarism
30
Debris and open burning
17
Natural
13
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Lake Mohonk Mountain House Complex: 2 producers.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
New Paltz, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 6 flood, 2 flash flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Heavy rain resulted in flooding along Springtown Road in New Paltz, along with numerous basement pumpouts, as reported by Emergency Management officials.||In addition, Lattintown Creek between Lattintown and Milton also had water overflowing its banks.
The combination of heavy rain, snowmelt, and clogged storm drains from significant snow and sleet accumulations, led to flooding of the Wallkill River in New Paltz. Two roads were reported closed due to this flooding. The two roads were Route 299 between the Wallkill River Bridge and Libertyville Road, and Springtown Road between Route 299 and Dug Road. The roads remained closed through Friday afternoon on February 15th.
Springtown Road was closed between Route 299 and Dug Road due to flooding.||In addition, Route 299 was closed from the Wallkill River Bridge to Libertyville Road due to flooding.
The combination of heavy rain and snowmelt led to isolated minor flooding of Springtown Road, between Kleine Kill Drive, and Dug Road in New Paltz, forcing this portion of the road to be closed.||The road was closed at approximately 1530 LST on December 25th, and reopened by 0700 LST on December 29th.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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