Hunting and Fishing in the Catskill Mountains

The Catskill Park spans seven hundred thousand acres, offering a diverse landscape and a wide variety of wildlife for outdoorsmen of all kinds. Explore the Northern Catskills dense forests and grassy meadows. Enjoy a Catskills boating adventure and navigate our lakes and rivers. Or discover our wetlands with Catskills wildlife around every bend in the 300,000 acres of designated public forest preserve inside the park. The ruffed grouse, pheasant, turkey, deer and black bear that roam the wilderness, test the woodland skills of hunters from near and far.

For fishing enthusiasts, Greene County's legendary trout streams lure fly fishermen from around the country, eager to test their skills in the region's thundering pools and bubbling brooks. The region's lakes yield northern pike, largemouth and smallmouth bass and lake trout, while the Hudson River off the shores of Greene County is renowned for its striped bass.