The Nevele Grande Hotel (NEV-uh-lee) was a high rise resort hotel located in the Town of Wawarsing, just outside Ellenville, New York; it closed its doors in 2009. The Nevele dated back to the days of the Borscht Belt, opening in 1903. “Nevele” is “Eleven” spelled backwards — according to lore, after the eleven nineteenth-century schoolteachers who discovered a waterfall within its present-day property. Its property included a once highly regarded 18-hole golf course and a 9-hole golf course which are also closed and have fallen into disrepair. The property is now privately owned and motion-sensor alarms in all of the vacant buildings discourage would-be explorers.