Johnny Ridge

French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts (or simply French Woods Festival or French Woods), is a private, co-educational performing and visual arts camp for youth aged 7 to 17 located in Hancock, New York. Established in 1970, French Woods is among the most prestigious summer arts programs in the United States.French Woods Festival runs one of the longest summer programs in American camping, running four three-week sessions, one week-long mini-session, and sponsoring a week-long adult camp at its sister camp, French Woods Sports and Arts Center. The primary summer schedule (the first four sessions) itself is among the longest in camping, ending in the last week of August. Campers are not required to attend for the entire summer and are able to choose any arrangement of the four sessions they wish to attend.French Woods Festival has prepared generations of prominent alumni in arts and culture, particularly in the performing arts. Alumni have either won or been nominated for a total of 40 Billboard Awards, 29 Emmy Awards, 26 Tony Awards, 22 Drama Desk Awards, 18 Grammy Awards, 7 Golden Globe Awards, 6 People’s Choice Awards, 4 BRIT Awards, and others. In recent years, French Woods has premiered several amateur productions of Broadway shows, including Billy Elliot and Honeymoon in Vegas.

Sand Pond is a small lake located south of the hamlet of French Woods in Delaware County, New York. The pond is also directly adjacent to French Woods Festival Of The Performing Arts. Sand Pond drains south via an unnamed creek that flows into Bouchoux Brook. Pierce Pond is located north of Sand Pond.

Elm Tree Ridge is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York east of Hancock. Bittersweet Hill is located west, Rattlesnake Hill is located south, Big Fork Mountain is located east-southeast, and Johnny Ridge is located southwest of Elm Tree Ridge.

Elm Swamp is a small lake located northeast of the hamlet of Lewbeach in Delaware County, New York. Elm Swamp drains south via an unnamed creek that flows into Pea Brook.

Allynwood Academy, formerly the Family Foundation School, was a private, co-educational, college preparatory, therapeutic boarding school located in Hancock, New York. The school was in operation from 1984 through 2014, when it closed due to declining enrollment amid a raft of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse allegations made by alumni in a grassroots "truth campaign." At least ten lawsuits have been brought by former students since 2019, in which plaintiffs claimed that strip searches, hard labor, isolation rooms, physical restraint, and sexual assault were rampant at the school in the 1990s and 2000s. Three of the lawsuits were settled in October 2021 for undisclosed sums. A front-page New York Times article in 2018 reported a pattern of at least one hundred deaths by overdose and suicide among alumni, the vast majority before age 40.

Rattlesnake Hill is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York southeast of Hancock. Jensen Hill is located south, Bouchoux Hill is located southwest, Big Fork Mountain is located northeast, and Johnny Ridge is located north-northwest of Rattlesnake Hill.

Bouchoux Hill is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York southeast of Hancock. Rattlesnake Hill is located northeast, Big Fork Mountain is located northeast, and Taylor Hill is located east-southeast of Bouchoux Hill.

Knowles Brook is a river in Delaware County, New York. It flows into Fish Creek east-southeast of Luzerne.

Delaware Lake is a small lake north of Long Eddy in Delaware County, New York. It drains south via an unnamed creek which flows into Hoolihan Brook. It was once referred to as Perch Pond

Taylor Hill is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York southeast of Hancock. Jensen Hill is located west-southwest, Rattlesnake Hill is located west-northwest, Big Fork Mountain is located north-northeast, and Johnny Ridge is located northwest of Taylor Hill.