The Last Word - Abandoned Nevele Resort
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Brennen from Uncharted Travel and I take a detailed look at my past video on the spectacular, abandoned ski resort. We had a crazy time filming this place and I figured this would be the perfect platform for us to share those experiences and what it was like to experience this magnificent place.
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I spent many summers in those pools and camps. Winters ice skating and toboggan rides. It was very high end with national entertainers and incredible food. Incredible nostalgia from a bygone era.
@A. Meowzki Every few minutes during the original video there’s a frame that exactly matches my visual memory and I’m instantly transported back to that precise place and time. With the indoor pool scenes I can smell the overpowering scent of chlorine and hear the screams from the high dive platforms echo of the glass canopy. Those are deep seated memories that otherwise would have remained sequestered in my subconscious forever - but these videos reawaken them from the eternal abyss. So I don’t at all lament the current state of the property but I instead recall the majesty of what it once was. It was my Camelot and also the same for so many others. Thankfully memories survive far past the physical world
Me too. Was a great experience with my parents seeing Red Buttons and the like.
I was a general contractor for a while that specialized in water, fire and abandoned damaged properties. You would be suprized at what can be saved. Walls always go. Flooring comes up. It is basically the framing and outer facing wall surfaces that you want to save. I do not know about NY but in King, Peirce and Thurston county Washington state if you leave 40% of the exterior wall of a structure up. Then integrate those walls into your new structure the project becomes a remodel instead of new construction. That can save thousands of dollars in permits, development and impact fees. It can actually let you in some cases avoid doing development impact of the area studies. Sometimes doing this can speed your project up by a year or more because you get to skip those impact studies, community comment meetings and such. On this property saving the tower and exterior walls of the other structures would likely save well into $200,000 in fees and speed things up a year or two. That's why all those developers keep going on and on about saving the existing buildings.
So much gems u drop
I wonder just how much of the USA sits abandoned, waiting to be rebuilt.
@@Red_Ryan_Red depends where you are. In Seattle...not much of it for very long. Realestate is so expensive developers are rebuilding or replacing everything very fast. Anything sitting empty usually is just waiting for plans to be oked by the city or financing to complete.
Where my dad lives in Kentucky. The entire "downtown" of 1930's era buildings on the town square have been boarded up for more than 30 years. Some torn down so they do not fall on anyone. WalMart closed every private retail business in town. Only things left are service/repair places, car wash, pawn shop, thrift store. Everything else is a franchise of some sort. Even the WalMart needed a bigger spot and the old walmart has been a giant empty shell for decades now. The US has so many small towns like that all over.
I remember staying here a few years before they closed. My family had a tradition of having a weekend long family reunion at dirt cheap hotels in the Catskills. The Nevele was the first of the many hotels in the area we stayed at that eventually ended up closing. We stayed there maybe a year or two before they closed. Seeing how the hotel looks almost identical to as it did when I stayed there is a very surreal fever dream.
You should explore more of the abandoned hotels in Upstate New Yorks specifically the Catskills.
My parents went to this abandoned resort in the early 2000's for a square dancing convention, and when I showed them your original video on this resort, they were so shocked and saddened by how much it had changed.
I loved the original Nevele video, one of my favorites, such a cool place, so I'm glad you revisited it, awesome hearing the behind the scenes details. I love the commentary videos too, you and Brennen are great together.
Jake’s voice so really nice and soft, perfect narration. I could imagine him doing a podcast
Well... Lucky you! No recent episodes but check out The BSF Podcast channel here on UA-cam. 😀
he does
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@@miesteryt no like he does or did a podcast at one point check out some older vids and you can find a link
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My high school senior trip was at the nevele in 2007. It was rough back then, smelled like mold and already in disrepair. Great video!! I can’t believe how it looks now.
Great video as always buddy! Had a lot of fun recording this one with you!
yes
I wish no disrespect to you Jake but I did not enjoy that format. You do make great video.
@@stanleytowe9970 you should go watch the original video of this property.
Great video as always!
I love the commentary videos. It’s something different, outside the norm of the regular videos.
This WAS really nice...well into the late 80’s and early 90’s...it was almost old style -Vegas-like back then...it’s just sad...
Their tower hotel looks like the Capitol Records Tower in LA
Columbia records might have even got their look from the Nevele club
There is a hotel next to Waikiki beach that is round like that too. Must have been A thing
I went to the Nevele Resort when I was just a toddler and apparently our room flooded. I remember I ice skated for the first time there and went tubing/sledding. Good times
so close to 1 million jake!!!!
Every video with Brennan:
Brennan: says something
Other person: “no, shut up you are wrong”
Yeah, that’s the only part I found uncomfortable. He kept getting cut off and contradicted. I know they are friends, but maybe they could figure out a way to make the language a little gentler.
Usually he is lol
My wife and I honeymooners there in 1971 room 888 in the tower and several times each year we would fly into the airport on the mountain above and jump on a helicopter and spend a week in the same room 888. It was a great place and time, still have many mementos from our stays
wow, thanks for sharing. I can only imagine how grand it must have been then.
Must have been nice back in the day
6:07 that picture is just breathtaking. The architecture, the colours the shapes of furniture! It all looks timeless and revolutionary. What a time to have been alive.
I'd like to recommend the abandoned lighthouses of the lower Mississippi delta in Louisiana such as the Pass A L'Outre (Pass to the other) Lighthouse. Sunken more than a third of its height into the mud, it would be interesting to get a drone in there to see if its interior is still intact.
The Nevele is close to me so growing up the commercial played constantly.
same
As soon as he said “...at the Nevele,” I heard the entire commercial in my head. Apparently, it doesn’t just stay in your head for days, but for years!
I think you should look into the old Hershey Factory in Hersey Pa, it was at one point the largest chocolate factory in the world and helped define the now popular tourist destination of Hershey Pa. The factory was abandoned and a lot of the equipment of the historical building was just left there to rot, I think it would be a very interesting video especially for people who either live around or have visited the area.
We did the Hershey Factor tour in the early 70’s. Did not realize Hershey abandoned it.
@@Holly2017Rascal yep adandoned for years and eventually tore most of it down
I agree, that video is one of your best. I love the intro, it looks like it’s from a major movie production not a UA-cam channel
The demolition alone would easily be $100 million, considering you're probably dealing with hazmat, lead paint and asbestos. Nothing that's salvageable.
My family and I used to go here every summer and winter in the 80’s and early 90’s. So many great memories. I was instantly transported back to all of them. So many summers in their camp for kids and I learned how to ice skate there too. Amazing. Breaks my heart to see it like this.
100%, even seeing how destroyed it is, I still remember all these areas in their heyday. It was such a beautiful local
This place really went downhill quickly. I was here in September of 2018 and there was no graffiti and very little vandalism. In more recent photos and videos the place has gotten MUCH worse than during your visit. The large carved mural is almost completely covered in graffiti.
On my first exploration attempt in 2015 a work crew was on site, there was a lot of furniture and other things stacked outside of the buildings, this may have been when furnishings were taken next door to the active hotel.
Your explanation of the strange vibes you felt is really a apt description of the former Borscht Belt area of The Catskills. It's a very strange place. Unlike anywhere else I have been and is difficult to describe to someone who has not been there.
I can best sum it up as a cross section of very strange, different and often "out of place" people. A odd mix of NYC transplants, Hasidic Jews and backwoods locals. All living in former resort towns, once bustling areas that are now largely empty. With many former resorts, hotels and bungalow communities dotting the rural, mountainous landscape. I have had more strange encounters and weird sightings in this area than any other single area I have visited. The Liberty Diner alone never fails to disappoint in the weirdness category.
Two final thoughts:
The name Nevele did not come from the original owner having eleven children, as others have mentioned, but was actually named after eleven school teachers who found a waterfall on the property in the early 1900s. This was mentioned in a "story of The Nevele" pamphlet we found in The Sahara Room.
Secondly the person on the ATV was probably not the landowner. Locals are known to drive their ATVs on the property. We saw evidence of a scrapper who had used a ATV to drag something very large, likely a ski lift motor, across the property to a waiting truck or van parked in the old golf course.
I really enjoyed your original video on the place as well as your follow up. Old resorts are one of my favorite things to explore and this is one of the best I have done.
Keep up the good work!
I’m a simple man. I see abandoned, I watch.
Me too
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@@matthewcadden3962 I see cancelled I watch
It's sad that abandoned complexes are rotting away.
Ya. But at the same time people find new thing, and new habits forms. Buildings like the Neville become forgotten to many.
It's sad that stuff are so Americana, yet are being abandoned do to lack of public interest, or lack of financial support.
Loved seeing the Nevele again. Would love to see more hotel/resort videos from you. I also enjoyed the commentary style of this video and think it would be great to take other past videos and do commentary on them.
I stayed at the Nevele once, and at its next door neighbor, The Fallsview, several times in my teens with a youth group I was a member of. That was around 20 years ago. I suspect I was one of the last people to stay there before the final shutdown. It's definitely an 'interesting' place, and it felt like going through a time warp even back then when it was still (barely) open. Thanks for the update.
To think of all the money, time and planning details that went into this wondrous place. Such a shane that it's going to waste. Wish somebody would remodel it.
Jake and Brennen, thank you again for the masterpiece that is the Nevele resort film. This review is a priceless peek into your experiences at the borderline haunted Nevele! Also, a few other people mentioned this in the comments but you are definitely reaching 1 million subs before March, this I know! 😁
The hotel from the song "Hotel California" is a pretty apt description. I somehow imagine the beast they were trying to kill in that song is still roaming the property.
Reminds me of the resort in Dirty Dancing movie
I've never seen the movie but from what I read whatever is in that movie is 'based on the declining resorts from the Catskills at the time'. This resort falls under that. 😀
"Kellermans" the resort in Dirty Dancing was based on a collaborative of multiple Catskill hotels, but was primarily inspired by Grossingers and Kutshers, in Sullivan County. Jackie Horner, who inspired the character of Penny, was a longtime dance instructor at Grossingers.
You think about all the great times had there; honeymoons, family trips, couples arguing, kids crying, workers getting pissed and quitting.....on and on.
Drove right up to the entrance this morning while working up there today. The scene looked awesome with snow falling.
Supposedly, New York State has many abandoned ski resorts all over the state. My personal favorite is Innsbruck Ski resort.
I suggest filming the abandoned IBM original headquarters in upstate New York if you ever get the chance.
The Nevele is also one of my fav vids you guys have done. I once had a dream that randomly played the Nevele theme and it kinda weirded me out on why it would do that, but it is so catchy. I do want you guys to do more like this so that way we can learn more about your guys’ experiences in these places.
You need to check out Gabe’s Tower in Owensboro, Kentucky. Similar tower and it’s abandoned!
They demolished it like 1 year ago.
Yeah, unfortunately Gabe's was demolished! The similarities between this tower and Gabe's are pretty prominent though.
Nextel merged with Sprint a while back which means it’s technically owned by T-Mobile right now.
It’s straight up owned by t-mobile now
🤔You might wanna FACT check that. Sorry.
I love the commentary videos. Would have been good to see some video or pictures of the hotel you stayed in. Great also to hear from Brennen. You guys are great!
I wish I had more. The ones I included were the only ones I took for some reason. I have no idea why I didn’t document more. Guess I was just lost in the twilight zone...
One week ago 🤨
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The Nevele video is by far the best video that you’ve done and I’m a huge fan of all of your videos! Loved it when you put it out and love it even more now. Would love to see more dead motel/hotel videos in the future. I’m sure they’ll be spectacular!
The Nevele ad played all the time on tv when I was a kid & teen
Hello @Angela Delia
Well hearing "Nextel" was weird. For 30 years starting in the early '80s my dad ran a successful radio communications and tower management company, and he built and leased out space on towers to different companies like Nextel. We even carried the Secret Service on one of our towers when the President was in town.
Nextel actually paid for my college. In the '90s my dad knew they were an up-and-coming business because he was leasing tower space to them, as I said, so he took a chunk of money and invested it in Nextel stock, giving his broker the instructions to sell it as soon as it hit a certain dollar amount. It did, it was sold, and my dad set aside a chunk of the profits from that investment to pay for my college, which I attended from '03-'07. I'm very, very lucky in that regard, and very blessed that my dad had the business sense and foresight to see how successful Nextel would end up being before finally becoming obsolete in the 2010s and disappearing.
Even back in the '80s he always said his business would eventually be made obsolete by satellites, and he shuttered everything, sold the towers, and retired right after I graduated, like a year before the 2008 recession.
Again, _lucky as all hell_ to have the foresight he did.
The place was beautiful at one point.... great memories.... and a fine golf course! Very sad!
Abandoned stuff is either in The Northeast USA, Southern USA, or Detroit.
*Not Cleveland though.*
Cleveland itself is abandoned
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CLEVELAND!!
@@njlauren lol it really is
@@joeconti2396 someone got the reference 😉
BSF has a video of an abandoned tower in Cleveland if I remember correctly.
Growing up in the 80's I completely forgot about those commercials until you mentioned the song from them. I looked them up here on UA-cam and boy did that take me back to my childhood. I completely forgot about this place. Nice work as always. Thanks for the memories
My parents had their honeymoon at the Nevele in 1951
Yes! Man, I looove these videos so much. They've really been carrying me through quarantine. I've just been binge-watching them
Nextel was a Sprint holdings company for cell towers.
If it has not changed over to T-Mobile US, It is used as the last option for 911/999 or LTE roaming.
Sounds like "The Shining"
The standard of Jake's filmmaking is outstanding. Great stuff fella.
Getting some “All Ghillied up” vibes
In my fictional world, this resort never gets abandoned and still successful
Now this is what you call a high quality video!
My wife grew up in the town where the Nevele is located, Ellenville, NY and my in laws still live there...it’s pretty much been shot to hell since the late 90’s...it’s never been knocked down because the property has been foreclosed on multiple times...
You guys are doing great work you are stating facts and history, sometimes visit, the Proper People are the best when it comes to direct sneak in and filming, and now I see Uncharted Travel. What an Asylums, beautiful old buildings they want to knock down, still good, what a creepy hospitals, other plants, which should be demolished. Crazy content guys!
This new Fallout 4 DLC looks pretty awesome!
It's such a shame that it's in this condition - it really looks like it was beautiful, and the area seems like it would be perfect for a resort of that kind, with so much to do all year round. Feels like a waste for it to be decaying like that. I hope they can figure out a way to restore or rebuild it.
It really was such a beautiful location when it was being taken care of……..the amount of decay and destruction over the course of a 10-15 year period is crazy. It really shows how even with the amount of change that humans implement on the natural landscape….it only takes a fraction of that time for nature to take it all back
i was there in the early 2000s when i was a little kid and i remember being in the main lobby and looking at the theater and seeing something going on in there.. and i remember the little golf course near the main lobby.. the little golf course was run down and broken so we couldn't do much.. it was sad to see but at least we got to see.. i also remember eating in the dining room at a circular table with my family.. and then there was the ice skating rink.. it was where i first learned to ice skate that was fun.. we even have a pic of the rink at my house :D
Thanks for doing this video and commentary. I’ve passed by this abandoned resort along route 209 and wondered about it. I don’t think Ellenville is technically in the Catskills as it is next to the Shawangunk mountains which are not part of the Catskills. Other nearby towns further west and north are considered in the Catskills or at least the Catskill foothills.
Nice seeing you both dropped a new video this evening! Thank you !
The Nevele is definitely my favorite video this channel has ever done. It's a combination of what an interesting and beautiful place it is, with how cinematically the video is shot. So good! I've watched it a few times when I want to unwind to something pretty and peaceful.
DUDE, your so close to a million, hope you get there soon :)
Thanks!
THANK YOU JAKE AND BRENNEN FOR SHARING I ENJOYED THE VIDEO. AND YES I WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE DOCUMENTARIES.
This was my hometown (Ellenville) and I worked there doing childcare for the guests in summers. The town has gone from a place of fun and tourist money to heroin and poverty not seen except in Appalachia now. There of been years and years of fighting by different organizations in the state to try and revamp it to its former glory instead of just knocking it all down.
150 mil $ seems very low of an estimate. In the state the complex is in, rebuilding from scratch would definitely be cheaper.
I really appreciate that you do these afterwards, it’s great to go back and hear more about these properties you visit. Thanks so much!
Definitely do more of these! It gives the videos so much more behind the scenes content such as the stories of the honors haven.
I remembered your channel yesterday when I saw a story about the hotel I stayed at and today it is abandoned, seeing the photos made me feel like I was in your videos. I love your work, greetings from a brazilian in England!
Thanks for uploading, I always love your videos!
so interesting hearing all this commentary/behind the scenes talk. Provides even more insight into how strange/weird this place is. Great video, would love more commentary videos in the future
I loved this video. Highly entertaining and a great peek behind the curtain. The dank moldy Korean Karaoke curtain.
I saw Sam and Colby explore here and as soon as I saw this vid I HAD TO WATCH IT. :D
I needed more BSF in my life right now, thank you
Watched the original Nevele Vid countless times. It's such a huge vibe! Easily in your top 2 or 3 all time for me.
Yay an update! Awesome as always
Yet another great one Jake! Thanks man🤘
👏👏👍Hello jake. You did another amazing job on this video with history and before / after pictures. Thank you so much. 👏👏😎👍
My family stayed at the Nevele once, maybe in 2002? It was so run-down and just DISGUSTING. It was also just creepy and almost abandoned. My brother and I were kids and we always called it the “never-ever-again-le”
Top quality as always
God perfect drop! I needed something to watch
I used to be the outdoor pool boy back in 1999. I recall and have deep memories of your content and filming. If you ever consider ...
The Neville building makes me think of the Capital Records building in LA
This made me want a video of the Honor's Haven Hotel...
I absolutely love the Nevele! I watch every video I can find of it. The latter ones are heartbreaking because of the vandalism. I wish I could see it but that's not possible. I'm glad it's still standing, it's over 100 years old. Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed it. Long live the Nevele!
I know right. Where it looks abandoned and gutted in the BSF video here there is not much graffiti. And then you see the more recent videos. 😥
Whenever I’m at work and I get the alert that you’ve posted a new video, especially Abandoned, you best believe I’m watching as soon as I get home. Thank you as always!
You guys make me feel old !! I worked in malls mostly throughout the 90s. I'll never get the sound of the "Nextel chirp" out of my head !!! Lol
The best video ever!!! Yall did a great job!!!! Thank you!!!!!!
Excellent.. I remember when you had 400 subscribers.. take care.
When I was a kid growing up in NJ I remember the TV ads for this place, so when I saw your video I had to watch. I actually did not know the place was abandoned. It is absolutely huge. I have seen your video and two others. What I understood was that when air travel became big people flew to other destinations and this place and others like it were just not used as much and being so expensive to upkeep they eventually closed.
loved the video, would love more!!
Beautiful drone footage!
That drone shot was 🔥🔥🔥
I grew up in northern New Jersey and remember the Nevele commercials on TV - the jingle is one you never forget! Such a shame that it sits in disrepair and state of uncertainty. If you ever have a chance to come back down to the states, just across the border of NY state in NJ sits the empty, overgrown and decaying former Playboy Club in Vernon. A lot of history behind those doors just waiting for someone to tell it.
Awesome video Jake!
Yes! Do more of these!
I got no problem with these videos. Keep em up. I look forward to seeing them every Friday.
I had stayed there around 1988/1989 or so with my parents for a Professional Photographers Association meeting/convention. Many photos were on easels throuhgout the halls. I spent a few evenings just wandering around the otherwise empty halls. You could tell even then that it was totally past its prime, although it was the off-season. It was neat to explore though.. ;)
Truly enjoy the commentary videos, please keep them coming!
WOW DEEP IN THE MOUNTAINS!
Growing up in Yonkers my parents would take us up to the Catskills. We’ve stayed at the Nevele, the Browns, Kutchers, Grossingers, the Pines, it was very convenient for my Father because he worked in Spring Valley.
Cool video. I like hearing the personal stories of the exploration that compliments the other retrospective style video.
I love how much this channel has grown and progress Jake has made in his videos. The unscripted rambles/banter in this were definitely kick back of the early videos. I'm so psyched Bright Sun is about to hit 1mil! Long long deserved!
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@@brianharley3496 Doing as well as can be. Lol how are you?
@@katepennant5829 I'm good we always remember the first time meeting people who have influenced us the most because we feel the same energy with them.
my two favorite videos of yours are the Nevele and colony!