Bearsville, New York

Bearsville
Unincorporated community
Bearsville Location within the state of New York
Coordinates: 42°04′06″N 74°15′51″W / 42.06833°N 74.26417°W / 42.06833; -74.26417Coordinates: 42°04′06″N 74°15′51″W / 42.06833°N 74.26417°W / 42.06833; -74.26417
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Ulster
Governmentpart of town of Woodstock
• Type	unincorporated area
Elevation	600 ft (200 m)
Population (2000)
• Total	700
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes	12409
Area code(s)	845
GNIS feature ID	943336

Bearsville is a hamlet in Ulster County, New York, USA. Bearsville is in the town of Woodstock, New York and is located along New York State Route 212, within Catskill State Park and just to the west of the hamlet of Woodstock.^[1][2] The highest known temperature in Bearsville was 101°F, which occurred in 1995. The lowest temperature was –27°F, recorded in 1994.^[3]

Bearsville was named for German peddler and storekeeper Christian Baehr, who built a store on the Sawkill Creek in 1839.^[4] Places of interest in Bearsville, or named for it, include Bearsville Records and Bearsville Studios, the WDST radio studios, and the Little Bear theater and restaurant complex.^[5]

On July 13, 2012, a family in Bearsville reported that their home had been repeatedly ransacked by bears that had broken into their kitchen. State wildlife specialists subsequently determined that the mother bear involved was a nuisance and would have to be killed, though efforts to shoot the bear were unsuccessful.^[6] Like many towns in Ulster County, Bearsville also has a thriving deer population.

References

v t e Municipalities and communities of Ulster County, New York, United States County seat: Kingston City Kingston Towns Denning Esopus Gardiner Hardenburgh Hurley Kingston Lloyd Marbletown Marlborough New Paltz Olive Plattekill Rochester Rosendale Saugerties Shandaken Shawangunk Ulster Wawarsing Woodstock Villages Ellenville New Paltz Saugerties CDPs Accord Clintondale Cragsmoor East Kingston Gardiner Glasco High Falls Highland Hillside Hurley Kerhonkson Lake Katrine Lincoln Park Malden-on-Hudson Marlboro Milton Napanoch Phoenicia Pine Hill Plattekill Port Ewen Rifton Rosendale Hamlet Saugerties South Shokan Stone Ridge Tillson Walker Valley Wallkill Watchtower West Hurley Woodstock Zena Other hamlets Bearsville Big Indian Boiceville Brown's Station Centerville Chichester Cottekill Krumville Lew Beach‡ Modena Mt. Pleasant Mt. Tremper Olivebridge Oliverea Palentown Seager Shady Spring Glen Sundown Tabasco Veteran West Park West Saugerties West Shokan Willow Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties