Camp Wapanachki

Built in 1980. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Zen Mountain Monastery is a Zen Buddhist monastery and training center on a 220-acre (0.89 km2) forested property in the Catskill Mountains in Mount Tremper, New York. It was founded in 1980 by John Daido Loori originally as the Zen Arts Center.”
Wikipedia article Zen Mountain Monastery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1980.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. S. Plank Rd. (Old Co. Rt 28) at jct. with Miller Rd., Shandaken, Mt. Tremper, 12464
When was it listed? November 1994
Category. building
Town. Shandaken town
When was it built? 1980
National Register reference number. 94001372 - 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.

Then and now

1900 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Camp Wapanachki, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Camp Wapanachki, surveyed 1900

Fires near this property

43 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Camp Wapanachki between 2000 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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	14
Smoking	8
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	WITTENBERG FIRE
31 July 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
13 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 April 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Camp Wapanachki: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Olive Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

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.

1900 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1946 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1997 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Mount Tremper Fire Observation Station	1.8 miles	2001
Al Held House and Studio	2.2 miles	2021
Vosburg Turning Mill Complex	2.6 miles	2002
Phoenicia Railroad Station	2.8 miles	1995
Emile Brunel Studio and Sculpture Garden	3.6 miles	1999
Olive and Hurley Old School Baptist Church	6.1 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001372 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 209 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

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.