User:LinkDoctor/Yankee Lake (New York)

Quiet, pristine Yankee Lake is a 410 acre man-made body of water located in New York State's Sullivan County (41°35'0 "N and 74°32'41"W), four miles west of Wurtsboro, on the top of the West Shawangunk Ridge in the scenic Catskill Mountains. Rising 1430 feet above sea level, Yankee Lake is two-and-a-half miles long and varies from one to two miles wide. Created as a feeder reservoir for the Delaware and Hudson (D & H) Canal in the mid-1800s, the current lake now encompasses almost nine miles of shoreline. The lake is fed by small streams from the north and west, as well as springs under the lake. Although generally shallow (average of about eight feet), in the areas of the original pond and springs, the lake is thirty to forty feet deep.

Yankee Lake, in the Catskill Mountains of New York, is owned by a non-profit organization, The Yankee Lake Preservation Association, Inc. (the YLPA). Their web site is:.

In 2016, the YLPA published a 256-page book, A History of Yankee Lake, New York, which can be found in its entirety at this URL: https://yankee-lake.org/warehouse/history-book/flip-book/mobile/index.html