A word to our Clients:

We are located just a skipping stone away from "The Portal."

The Portal is where water from the Scoharie Creek enters the Esopus Creek... after flowing through a huge underground aquaduct. The water then flows to the Ashokan reservoir and on to provide for the needs of of over ten million people in the greater New York City Metropolitan area.

I like to name our links page after "The Portal" to remind our clients how important it is to support small, green, eco-friendly businesses in the NYC watershed. We must protect and cherish our pure clean water and pristine Catskill forest wilderness. Large scale terrain altering development like the proposed Belleayre Resort, and shopping malls like the grotesquely elongated Emerson Plaza Shopping Tunnel are almost as destructive to our area as smokestack industry, or vast subdivisions of dense housing. When you stay at a charming B&B like the Phoenicia Belle, or hire any one of our many fine small local businesses, you help protect the environment and the charming country character of the Catskill high peaks.

Thanks! Dave Channon