Two rivers start their journeys here, on top of a mountain pass at the base of Slide Mountain in the western Catskills. Our artist team explored this potent high point, the divide between the Catskill and Delaware watersheds. From here the headwaters of Esopus Creek flow northeast, ultimately to create the Ashokan Reservoir. Just a few hundred yards away, the headwaters of the beautiful Neversink River run down the opposite slope toward the south.
Headwaters of the Neversink River, flowing south
Nearby: headwaters of Esopus Creek flowing north
A beautiful painting by Lisa Lebofsky
Robin Kappy captures the birth of the Neversink River
Eric Leichtung early in the early stages of a great plein air painting
Tony Winters starts a view of the Neversink headwaters looking north