The Shawangunk Mountains―the Gunks―are renowned for stunning landscapes on and off the ridge in a region that has remained a favorite destination for visitors since the middle of the nineteenth century. Join professor and author Ronald G. Knapp as he takes a walk through time viewing the rugged topography with glistening grey-white escarpments, jumbled boulders at the base of cliffs, deep crevices, as well as precipitation-fed “sky lakes.” Of the three magnificent Victorian hotels that were constructed in the northern Shawangunk Mountains in the decades after 1869, only the grand Mohonk Mountain House remains.