Nights are still cool, but days are heating up in the foothills of the Catskills.  This Mothers’ Day, our neighbor the Sivananda Yoga Ranch welcomes you for a Open House tour, yoga class and vegetarian lunch.  Mohonk Preserve’s spring programming includes a toddler hike on Friday May 17^th, a guided Wild Flower Walk May 18^th and an opportunity to meet a wolf Friday May 31^st. Also, the 18^th head over to Gardiner’s cupcake festival.  June 8^th and 9^th, each winery on the Shawangunk Wine Trail becomes a different country.  Discover each country’s food paired with regional wines. June 22^nd, ring in summer with us. Join Catskill Mountainkeeper at Barnfest. Celebrate the food, arts and culture of the Catskills with 2 stages of live music, theater, film, kids activities, art auction, food trucks, and more.  Saturday July 6^th, enjoy afternoon Supper at Neversink Farm, a small-scale organic vegetable and flower farm.  Enjoy canapés, wander the fields, stroll the garden, walk the banks of the river.  Award winning Chef Patrick Connolly will prepare a multiple course meal sourced from nearby.  Bethel Woods summer concert series includes Joan Baez and the Indigo Girls June 22^nd, Heart June 29^th, Dave Matthews Band July 2^nd, Natalie Merchant July 20^th and Cheech and Chong Augsut 15^th, to mention a few highlights. August 10^th is Ellenville’s 10^th Annual Wild Blueberry Festival.  Try your pie baking or judging skills.

As you may or may not know the Pond at Emerald Forest Bungalows is teaming with fish.  Max & his wife Jen who make their seasonal trek here every July 4th weekend caught a really sweet bass, (the biggest so far this season) and as I heard made for some really good eats.  You rock dude!

Hi, I'm Mike Jacobson, aka Jake, the owner and proprietor of Emerald Forest Bungalows.  My goal is to give you an experience that is good and wholesome.  In other words, a whole lot at a fair price.  The summer season is just about HERE, so book early as not to be left out.  The heat, the pool, the very cold swimming holes, the BBQs, the camp fires, the quests!  I have to say that the people who have stayed at our cabins over the years are the best.  Good wholesome people, some who have become good friends of ours.  Thanks everyone for staying at Emerald Forest Bungalows.  So to the rest of you I say come and stay a while.  We have fully furnished one and two bedroom bungalows/cottages for rent, a salt water pool, a two acre pond that is stocked with large mouth bass and 75 acres to frolic in.

Swayze became a star in 1987 with his performance as the misunderstood, leather-clad bad boy Johnny Castle in ''Dirty Dancing.''  The coming-of-age romance established him as a romantic leading man. He starred opposite Jennifer Grey as a sexy (and much older) working-class dance instructor at a Catskills resort who proved to have more heart, integrity and sex appeal than many of the wealthy guests with whom he was forbidden to fraternize.  The film made great use of both his grace on his feet and his muscular physique.  Swayze's 20-month battle with advanced pancreatic cancer ended when he died Monday, September 14.  He was 57.  The Catskills were once America's largest resort area.