Clean drinking water for 9 million consumers in the metropolitan New York region originates in the Catskill Mountains, a 2,000 square mile watershed dotted with small towns, farms and green forests which cover over 75% of the land. Frost Valley YMCA stewards 6,000 acres at the top of the Neversink Reservoir Basin in this region.
At the Main Camp, Biscuit and Pigeon Brooks spring from forested mountains topping 3,500 feet in elevation, then flow into the West Branch of the Neversink River before being stored in the Neversink Reservoir downstream. The East Branch of the Neversink River winds by Frost Valley’s Straus Center and Educational Farm at the East Valley Camp on its way to the Neversink Reservoir.
More than half of the schoolchildren and summer campers attending Frost Valley YMCA annually are direct beneficiaries of the clean drinking water provided by this healthy 6,000-acre forest ecosystem.
