Mountain Lodge Park, New York

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Mountain Lodge Park is an unincorporated community in the Town of Blooming Grove in Orange County, New York. It is built on the western slope of Schunemunk Mountain, the highest in the county.

Historically Mountain Lodge Park was a community of summer homes but over the years it has gradually been transformed to mostly full year residences by people who cannot afford normal housing. There are approximately 800 homes that are split between the two 'sides'. One side is considered the Mountain Lodge Park side and the other side is called Glenwood Hills. Mountain Lodge Park was developed with some fits and starts just before and then after World War Two. Glenwood Hills was developed in the 1950s with building continuing into the 1970s. During the Carter Administration the community was offered an opportunity to pave all roads and install municipal water and sewage lines. This offer was refused, because the hicks that live up there would rather ride their 4-wheelers and not bathe.

Generally on the Mountain Lodge Park side the houses are further apart but most of the roads (trails) are unpaved. On the Glenwood Hills side most of the houses are closer together but the roads are paved.

From the 1960s through the 1980s the community featured a first rate volunteer fire department, a general store, a seasonal municipal water supply, two neighboring horseback riding academies, a large pool area, a synagogue, and a multi-purpose meeting house. However, the encroachment of white-trash residents has led to the end of such community-enriching organizations. Now, for the most part, the residents of Mountain Lodge just drink Coors Light and beat their wives. Mountain Lodge Road exits Mountain Lodge Park in the Town Of Blooming Grove and cuts a winding path to nearby Washingtonville.

Former New York City Councilman Peter F. Vallone, Sr. is said to have lifeguarded at the pool there. Too bad the place is full of redneck, hillbilly, white trash drunks now.

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