South Mountain, 2,185 feet in elevation, is a lesser summit in the

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Catskill Mountains The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York. As a cultural and geographic region, the Catskills are generally defined as those areas c ...

massif that includes Ashokan High Point,

Mombaccus Mountain Mombaccus Mountain is located in the Catskill Mountains of New York. To the south, it looms over the hamlet of Samsonville in the town of Olive The olive, botanical name ''Olea europaea'', meaning 'European olive' in Latin, is a species o ...

and

Little Rocky Little Rocky is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York. It is part of a massif that includes Ashokan High Point, Mombaccus Mountain Mombaccus Mountain is located in the Catskill Mountains of New York. To the south, it loo ...

. Its northwest slope descends to Watson Hollow, its southwest slope to South Hollow and its eastern side rises above High Point Mountain Road in the

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hamlet of West Shokan. Following a 2005 court ruling against the town of

, a prominently visible cell phone tower was erected on a patch of private property on the ridge north of the South Mountain summit.Robert B. Foster and Mitchell A. Carrel, "Disguised as a Tree...," ''The Urban Lawyer'' Vol. 38, No. 3 (Summer 2006), p. 667.

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