A Tourist Guide to the Sights of the Hudson Valley

Although Manhattan Island is world famous for its sights, restaurants, and cultural offerings, few venture beyond its borders. However, Hudson Valley, rich in natural scenery and historic attractions are easily explored within a day or two and just a short drive from the city.

located in the Whitestone Bridge, 150-mile valley, running from Yonkers to Albany in the lower state of New York and Split the Hudson River, consists of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage area, which was established by the United States Congress in 1996 to recognize , preserve, protect, and interpret the nationally significant history and resources in the valley for the benefit of the nation. Four primary, north-south access routes in the area: Taconic State Parkway and Route 9 on the east side of Route 9W and I-87, alternatively known as the New York State Thruway, on the west side of

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ride across the Whitestone Bridge during a recent visit to fall, which seemed to link the two diametrically-opposed worlds, I felt like I was expelled from the city noise and stress, stored on a Hutchinson River Parkway, the threshold of the rural state of New York and, more broadly, Barnstorming grass area of the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome. Navigating Route 9, which sprung from shale rock and autumn-burning, multi-colored trees, I also blue reflective surface of the Hudson River, whose west coast rose to the Bear Mountain tree rafala.Rubin collage color red, which appear as a flame, dominates pallets, and burns orange, as if it were glowing like a pumpkin in the sun, were almost svjetlećim.Zlata, although subtle, were rich, while the light yellow and soft green seemed to hold up to the end of the summer. Put suppressed and topographic and seasonal boundaries.

Irvington, one of the top historical sites in the Lower Hudson Valley, was named for Washington Irving, author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle and the place of his tombstone and weathervaned house, Sunnyside. Philipsburg Manor, which is located nearby in Tarrytown, was 18th century farm and gristmill.

Van Cortlandt Manor, from the late 1600s and home to New York City first deputy governor, was developed as a tourist attraction with the 18th century tavern and a blacksmith, and hearth-cooking demonstrations. City of Stoney Point, the Revolutionary War, a strategic stronghold, lies across a river.

Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, is an outdoor sculpture park with works of contemporary Calder, Moore and Noguchi.

Hudson-lasting Bear Mountain Bridge, which leads to the Hudson Highlands, and access to Bear Mountain and Harriman State Parks on the west side, while the United States Military Academy West Point, located on the east side, nalazinacije oldest military academy, identify embattlements rock on the coast.

Newburgh, which is located across the river in the Mid-Hudson Valley, was the location of the last east-west, the Hudson River ferry before the current Newburgh-Beacon Bridge was built 1963.Povijesnom area, where the 1835 Dutch Reformed Church was designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, also includes Washington's headquarters, the oldest publicly owned historic house museum and place of his residence during the last 16 months of the war for nezavisnost.U New Windsor cantonment near the living quarters of their troops.

Hyde Park, the river on the east side, is the birthplace of Franklin Roosevelt Deleanor, United States President, and features Springwood, Roosevelt's home, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum, Val-Kill, Mrs. Roosevelt's retreat, Top Cottage, president of a hill retreat and Vanderbilt Mansion, 50-room residence of Frederick and Louise Vanderbilt. Across the river, New Paltz, with its historic, stone church and a house-lined Huguenot Street, marks the 1690 French emigrant settlements are just a few minutes from the Victorian Mohonk Mountain House National Historic landmark, and Minnewaska State Park Preserve.

Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, located just east of the historic village of Rhinebeck and Red Hook, is a living, early-aviation museum with the original aircraft and engines, and offers a weekend air show from mid June to mid-October.

After a walk through the wooden bridge as a gateway to a recent visit, 1920 Barnstorming-like airport appeared before me.

the original 1909 high-wing, fabric covered Bleiriot XI arced into the sky, even briefly, from the rolling, sweeping grass field straddled on both sides of the red, orange, yellow and October-brushed trees reminiscent of the 1910 and 1920 Barnstorming days, creating illusion that it was time aviation somehow survived and continued to play within the vacuum outside the museum vrata.Vješalice, as if ignorant of the calendar, proudly braved the winds, bearing such names as the Albatros Werke, the Royal Aircraft Factory Farnborough, AV ROE and Company, Ltd., and Fokker. But there is a multitude of mono-, bi-, and triplanes the most fiercely fought one of the current time of conception.

Fifteen minutes flight in 1929 a new standard D-25 biplane is offered before and after the air show itself, the three that I have personally during my many visits. Assuming the ear-shattering blast of the propeller and engine spitting pelted with castor oil, D-25 gently lifts its tail wheel off the ground and gave her two, fabric-covered wings to the sky. Bitten by the stinging, wind Slipstream produced in October, whose force almost inhibit breathing, and occasionally needled from the engine spit castor oil, I looked over krila.Tlo, camouflaged by a dense pattern of orange, yellow and red autumn-transformed trees, is usually no modern civilization as a biplane surmounted silver surface of the Hudson River.

Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, located a few miles from Rhinebeck, crosses the Hudson River and access to 1094 square kilometers of forest, Catskill Park, the site three, 1500-foot mountains that offer skiing in winter: Belleayre, Hunter and Ski Windham.

is so beautiful Hudson Valley that spawned a movement of 19th century, the image is called the Hudson River School of landscape painters who challenged Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, which is a Persian-style estate, Olana is located on the west side. Images directly from nature, these artists, among others, has created a visual medium that is expressed optimism, vitality and personal theology through color, light and perspective.

dotted with vineyards, the valley offers the tourist a chance to sample many local New York State wines.

Albany, with its modern sculpture-like architecture, is located in the Upper Hudson Valley and the French Chateau features granite State Capitol zgradu.Državnog capital from 1797 and another built city in America, it continues to operate under its 1686 charter and is always served as a transportation hub for the Indian trail days.

Hudson Valley alternatively can be enjoyed from the Amtrak-day-long, 381 km route from New York to Montreal of the "Adirondack" and is considered one of its four most scenic rail journeys USA.

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