Beyond Manhattan: Hudson Valley
Although the island of Manhattan is world famous for its tourist attractions, restaurants and cultural offerings, few venture beyond its borders. However, the Hudson Valley, rich in natural and historical attractions can be easily explored in a day or two and is a few kilometers from the city.
Located in the Whitestone Bridge, the valley of 150 miles, from Yonkers to Albany in New York by the Hudson River and consists of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area was created by Congress in 1996 to recognize, preserve, protect and interpret the history of importance and national resources of the valley for the benefit of the nation. Four main north-south access routes in the region: the Taconic State Parkway and Route 9 on the east side and Route 9 W and 87 – also known as the New York State Thruway, on the west side.
Conduct Whitestone Bridge during a recent visit to fall, it seemed connect two worlds are diametrically opposed, I felt like I was disconnected from the congestion and stress of the city, filed with the Hutchinson River Parkway, threshold rural upstate New York and beyond, the area of revenue passengers Grass Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome. Tour Route 9, the curve of slate between the rock and burned with falls, colorful trees, I parallel the blue surface-reflection on the Hudson River, the West Bank increased from Bear Mountain, a collage of the Pops color of the trees. The flames appear as red ruby, has dominated the palette, while the flaming oranges, pumpkins as bright as the sun, they were almost luminous. The gold medals, far more subtle, were rich, while the soft yellow and green light seemed to cling to late summer. The term limits overshadowed both topographical and seasonal.
Irvington, a historic first in the Lower Hudson Valley, he was named by Washington Irving, author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, and was the site of his house Gable weathervanes, Sunnyside. Manor Philipsburg, located nearby in Tarrytown, was a 18th century farm and mill flour.
Van Cortlandt Manor, dating from the late 1600s and hosted the first Lieutenant Governor of New York, was designed as a major tourist attraction with its 18th century tavern and demonstrations of blacksmithing and cooking fire. The city of Stoney Point, a Revolutionary War fort strategically located river.
The Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, is a sculpture park outdoor contemporary works by Calder, Moore and Noguchi.
The calibration Hudson Bear Mountain Bridge leading to the Hudson Highlands, with access to both Bear Mountain and Harriman state parks on the west side, while the United States Military Academy at West Point located on the east side, is the nation's oldest military academy identification of niches of stone in your bank.
Newburgh, situated on the river in the middle Hudson Valley was the site of the last East-West Hudson River ferry before the current Newburgh-Beacon Bridge was built in 1963. The historic district, the location Dutch Reformed Church in 1835 designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, also included Washington headquarters, the oldest public museum in a historic home owner and the site resided in the last 16 months of the war of Independence. The nearby New Windsor cantonment was the home of his troops.
Hyde Park, the east side of the river, was the birthplace of Franklin Roosevelt Deleanor, president of the United States, and the characteristics of Springwood, Home Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum Val-Kill, Eleanor Roosevelt's retreat, the house Up, Hill retired president, and Vanderbilt Mansion, the residence of 50 rooms of Frederick and Louise Vanderbilt. The other Across the river, New Paltz, with its history, the stone church and home bordered Huguenot Street commemorating the 1690 French colonial immigrant himself a few minutes from the Victorian era Mohonk Mountain House, a National Historic Landmark, and Minnewaska State Park Preserve.
Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, located just east of peoples Historic Rhinebeck and Red Hook is a living, the aviation museum at the beginning with original engines of aircraft and air offers entertainment on weekends from mid- June to mid-October.
After crossing a wooden bridge-like entrance on a recent visit, the aerodrome barnstorming 1920, as appeared to me.
An original 1909 high wing, fabric covered Bleiriot XI curve toward the sky, albeit briefly, its hardware, grassy field of exploration on horseback between two sides red, orange and yellow painted in October 1910 and recalls the 1920 barnstorming days, creating the illusion that this era of aviation had been preserved and continued playing in the vacuum time beyond the doors of the museum. The cars, as if unaware of the date, proudly braved the winds, taking names as Albatros Werke, the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough, AV Roe and Company, Ltd., and Fokker. But is the multitude of mono-, bi-and most fiercely fought triptans with Current design time.
Fifteen-minute flight in 1929 a new standard D-25 biplane are offered before and after the air show itself, including three that I personally took during my many visits. hypothesis of an explosion bursting the ear of her propeller and bombed the engine spitting castor oil, D-25 carefully its rear wheel lifted off the ground and gave up his double, fabric covered wings to the sky. Bitten by the injection, which produced winds in October after nearly inhibits respiration, hands regularly and castor oil the spindle motor, I looked on the wing. The ground, camouflaged by a dense network orange, yellow and red in autumn-transformed trees also devoid of contemporary civilization as the biplane to overcome the silver surface of the Hudson River.
The Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge located a few miles from Rhinebeck, across the Hudson River and reaches the 1094-square-mile Catskill Forest Reserve, the site of three mountains 1,500 feet offering skiing in winter: Belleayre, Hunter, Windham and skiing.
So beautiful Hudson Valley was the summer she had given birth to a movement of nineteenth-century painting called the Hudson River School of landscape painters, who had been provoked by Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, whose Persian style of property, Olana, is located on the west side River. Direct painting nature, these artists, among others, has created a visual that has expressed its optimism, vitality and personal theology through color, light, and perspective.
Dotted with vineyards, the valley offers visitors the opportunity to taste many wines from New York.
Albany, with its architecture and sculpture, is located in the Upper Hudson Valley and features French chateau granite State Capitol Building. The state capital since 1797 and the second incorporated city in the United States, which continues to operate under its statutes in 1686 and has consistently served as a transportation hub since the time Indian trail.
Hudson Valley you can enjoy days of Amtrak's 381-mile route from New York to Montreal has designated the "Adirondack" and considered one of the four train trips stage in the United States.
The next time you visit Manhattan, take the "short" without Whitestone Bridge: Take a "long" way …
About the Author
A graduate of Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus with a summa-cum-laude BA Degree in Comparative Languages and Journalism, I have subsequently earned the Continuing Community Education Teaching Certificate from the Nassau Association for Continuing Community Education (NACCE) at Molloy College, the Travel Career Development Certificate from the Institute of Certified Travel Agents (ICTA) at LIU, and the AAS Degree in Aerospace Technology at the State University of New York – College of Technology at Farmingdale. Having amassed almost three decades in the airline industry, I managed the New York-JFK and Washington-Dulles stations at Austrian Airlines, created the North American Station Training Program, served as an Aviation Advisor to Farmingdale State University of New York, and devised and taught the Airline Management Certificate Program at the Long Island Educational Opportunity Center. A freelance author, I have written some 70 books of the short story, novel, nonfiction, essay, poetry, article, log, curriculum, training manual, and textbook genre in English, German, and Spanish, having principally focused on aviation and travel, and I have been published in book, magazine, newsletter, and electronic Web site form. I am a writer for Cole Palen’s Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York. I have made some 350 lifetime trips by air, sea, rail, and road.
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