re: #248 Walter L. Newton

Evidently there is a “local” misconception about the mountain ridges that spread up the east coast. Decatur Deb is correct that in that area, we always saw the Poconos as becoming the Berkshires in Northern New Jersey and continuing on into New England.

I’m looking over maps in another tab, and I see the differences, and I also see how it could have just been assumed.

Berkshire Valley is near Lake Hopatcong.

Interesting. Where to the Catskills fit in? I always thought Vernon was in the Ramapos. Bear Mountain/West Point is the Ramapo range. Then, going north it went Catskills, Adirondack’s. When you crossed the Hudson from the Catskills, Adirondack’s, you hit the Berkshires, the Green and White Mountains. Going west across Jersey, you didn’t hit the Poconos till you crossed the Delaware River.

But really, I never really thought much about it.