Lanesville, A Catskills Kind Of Town

There’s a small town by the name of Lanesville nestled into the Catskill Mountains of New York.  More particularly, it’s part of Greene County and a sort of little sister township to Hunter, New York. 

Type Lanesville into a search engine and you won’t get the normal flurry of tourism websites.  This is, after all, quite a small place, but it is surrounded by some big drawing cards - more on that later.  Although vacation rentals pop up in some unusual places, searching for a vacation rental in Lanesville presents some challenges in comparison with, say, the Hamptons.  But a vacation rental in the Catskills is a time-honored concept, and Lanesville is most definitely in the Catskills.

Just how much in the Catskills, you ask?  Well, Lanesville is surrounded by peaks:  Shandaken, West Kill, Hunter, and Indian Head are well within range.  Phoenicia, another small town bolstered by mountain-related tourism, is just a few miles down the road, and so is Phoenicia Wild Forest.  The ominously-named Devil’s Tombstone campground is also just minutes away.