Catskill villages and hamlets have long attracted people with historic, walkable downtowns, local businesses, and access to recreation in the surrounding forests, rivers, and open spaces. While these communities share aspects of the same mountainous region, each is shaped by its location, topography, cultural history, and other influences. Woodstock is long known as a cultural hub for artists, musicians, and social activists, with a thriving main street, varied shops and eateries, and access to hiking areas such as Overlook Mountain. Phoenicia, once important in the logging, bluestone, and hotel industries, lies along Esopus Creek and offers fishing, tubing, kayaking, hiking, a historic train ride, and an eclectic downtown. Livingston Manor and Roscoe, along the southern edge of the Catskill Park, are the birthplace of American fly-fishing and are surrounded by streams, lakes, campgrounds, and public lands for year-round outdoor pursuits. Andes, along the scenic Route 28 corridor, has a bustling historic main street, working dairy farms, and nearby fishing on the Pepacton Reservoir and hiking in the Catskill Park. Farther west, other Delaware County communities combine quaint downtowns with active agricultural operations, while hamlets atop the Catskill escarpment help shape the history, recreation, and culture of the northern Catskills, with year-round activities at ski centers in Hunter and Windham and proximity to scenery painted by Hudson River School artists and sites of some of America’s earliest hotels.