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HUDSON VALLEY REGION Columbia County HUDSON VALLEY REGION Columbia County. The long unwinding road. Take a drive along our country roads and you’ll step back in time to another era. Where the livin’ is easy. Where you can enjoy the best of cultural and historical sites and attractions. Or not, your choice. Where a country store offers fresh produce and baked goods, and a you-can-pay-me- tomorrow attitude. Where “laid back” isn’t just a label, but a lifestyle. Best of all, wherever you wander in our fair county—to shop, hear music, dine, or just explore—you’ll meander along some of best country roads in America. www.bestcountryroads.com 1 Seeing & Doing Seeing & Doing The Arts Living History More and more, Columbia County is the cultural Columbia County offers life’s simple gifts in a gem of the Hudson Valley. Here in a bucolic setting place that’s simply historic. you can view provocative works from international Start with a jewel of Columbia County architecture: and regional artists. Avant-garde painting and Olana—the masterstroke of Frederic Church, sculpture. Exhilarating musicals. And classical one of America’s premier landscape painters. concerts of every size and shape. His Persian-style mansion offers sweeping views Here, renowned artists, inspired by tranquility, of the Hudson that will take your breath away. make their home, following in the footsteps of Head down to Clermont, the 18th century manor Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, Sanford Gifford home, and celebrate Clermont’s Fulton-Livingston and other painters of the Hudson River school. steamboat bicentennial in 2007. Wander through Today, galleries dot the country and grace our the Federal mansion of James Vanderpoel, whose towns and villages. period furnishings take you back to Our renowned film festival, Film Columbia offers a gentler age. Enjoy the Georgian world-premieres in a small-town, main street and Italianate home of our eighth movie theatre that dates back to Chaplin’s era. president, MartinVan Buren. Or, You can take in a play, a poetry reading, or be journey into classic simplicity with charmed by an old-time band. You’ll encounter a the Shaker way of life and the fore- hotbed of folk and bluegrass most collection of its culture. Visit the humble music. Opera, chamber music, schoolhouse whose master was the model for dance, it’s all here, year- Ichabod Crane. And save room in your historic round, for your pleasure. journey for one of the world’s most unusual museums: the American Museum of Firefighting. 2 Take the long unwinding road. www.bestcountryroads.com 3 Shopping Shopping Antiques, Art & More Country Markets, If shopping is your favorite sport, you’ll love Festivals & Fairs Columbia County. What’s the secret to great food? Buy fresh and buy That’s because the hunting here is an absolute local. And for gourmets, gourmands and foodies, delight, with treasures at every turn. Antiques, fine Columbia County is the place to shop. From our art, gifts, home furnishings, jewelry— the county’s fresh orchards come crisp Macintosh and Empire bounty is overflowing. apples, cider, oven-hot donuts and apple pies. You can sample luscious raspberries, Amid the mansions of sea captains and merchants buttery sweet corn, peaches, or lies one of the premier antiquing centers in the tomatoes right off the vine. country—Hudson, New York. More than 65 Country markets dot the antiques shops line Warren Street and meandering backroads with its side streets. Lose track of time, just-picked produce, home- stroll from shop to shop, but made jellies and jams, maple prepare to be amazed at what syrup, and tempting bakery delights. you find in one leisurely walk. In season, there are countless fairs and festivals Throughout Columbia County, celebrating music, antiques, the arts and seasons. from the meandering Hudson Visitors come from the world over to the Grey Fox River to the rugged Berkshire Bluegrass Festival, Hudson ArtsWalk, or the foothills, you’ll finding charming shops Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. And of course, the with wonderful surprises and the kind of laid-back grandaddy of them all, the Columbia County Fair! service that is a hallmark of our wonderful county. 4 Take the long unwinding road. www.bestcountryroads.com 5 s e t i S c i r Take a tour through American history and experience our o Seeing & Doing unique American heritage: A Dutch colonial homestead, mansions of t prominent early American families, the home of our 8th president, s Outdoors and the Moorish villa of a major Hudson River School painter. i Every traveler, in every season, delights in H I Clermont State Historic Site www.nps.gov/mava. The home and Columbia County’s outdoors. off Rt 9G, Clermont; 537-4240, farm of the eighth president of the United www.friendsofclermont.org. Livingston States.; open May - Oct 9-4:30pm daily family estate. Tours April 1 - Oct 31, I Millay Poetry Trail at Steepletop Deep within our rolling hills and quiet landscapes, Tues- Sun and Mon holidays 11am-5pm; East Hill Rd – 2 miles from Rt 22, Nov 1 - March 31 weekends 11am-4pm. you’ll discover the time of your life. An invigorating Austerlitz; www.millay.org. Half-mile Grounds and historic gardens open all country road for walking is marked with hike in our forests. A round of golf in a countryside year for picnicking, hiking, cross country favorite nature poems by Edna St. Vincent skiing, and fabulous views. Vehicle Fee Millay, ending at her family’s final resting setting. Trout in our crystal streams. A ski trail just April 1 - Oct 31 (refunded with the purchase ground. Open all year. of a tour ticket) waiting to be conquered. I I Columbia County Museum* Olana State Historic Site 5 Albany Ave, Kinderhook Village; 5720 Rt 9G, south of Hudson; Nature lovers soak up the untamed beauty of Bash 758-9265, www.cchsny.org. 828-0135, www.olana.org. Home of Hudson River School painter Frederic Exhibits and research library; Mon, Wed, Church. The 250 acre grounds are open Bish Falls. Cyclists glide down quiet country lanes. Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 10am-4pm Sun 12-4pm year around from 8am – sunset for hiking, Families swim in our state parks. Leaf peepers I FASNY Museum of Firefighting picnicking, cross country skiing as well as 117 Harry Howard Ave, Hudson; concerts and special events. Please call for gasp at hillsides of stunning reds and 822-1875 or 877-347-3687, current house tour schedule. www.fasnyfiremuseum.com. More than I Parker-O’Malley Air Museum golds. Skiers glide down fresh 50,000 square feet of fire engines, equipment 435 County Rt 20 (off Rt 9H) Ghent; and gear depict the history of firefighting snow at Catamount. Race fans 392-7200, www.parkeromalley.org over 300 years. Children’s activities include thrill to lightning-quick action creative play on select fire engines and 1920s -1940s flying vintage aircraft, war interactive activities. Daily 9-4:30 closed memorabilia, wind tunnel, flight simulator. at one of New York State’s best Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Free By appointment only DIRT & NHRA tracks: Lebanon admission and wheelchair accessible. I Robert Jenkins House & Museum I Hudson Athens Lighthouse 113 Warren St, Hudson; 828-9764 Valley Speedway & Dragway 1811 Federal style home housing the city of . Fantastic view of lighthouse from y t Hudson’s whaling lore, military artifacts and e i the Hudson Waterfront Park, c o Front St, Hudson; 828-5294, the Hendrick Hudson Chapter of the DAR; S No matter what your outdoor passion, from every l July-Aug, Sun-Mon 1-3pm or by appointment a www.hudsonathenslighthouse.org. c i r o The northern-most lighthouse on the t I Samuel Tilden Gravesite corner the views of Columbia County’s landscape s i Hudson River rises from the river like a tiny H Cemetery of the Evergreens, Cemetery Rd, y t gem. Tours offered the second Saturday are unforgettable. The towering Catskills and rolling n off Rt 22, New Lebanon. 1876 presidential u o from July – Oct. candidate who won by 250,000 popular votes C Taconics take your breath away. Stand in awe at a i I but lost the election by one electoral vote. b Luykas Van Alen House* m u Rt 9H, Kinderhook; 758-9265, the wonder of the silent woods or let your senses l I Shaker Museum and Library o C www.cchsny.org. 1737 Dutch farmhouse, 88 Shaker Museum Rd (off Cty Rt 13), e overflow with the rush of a pristine stream. Fresh, h used in Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence; t Old Chatham; 794-9100, y includes circa 1920 Ichabod Crane b www.shakermuseumandlibrary.org. crisp air. Boundless serenity. Or exhilarating sports. d e Schoolhouse, open Memorial Day - Labor Day t Shaker artifacts, orientation and interpretive a r weekend, Thurs-Sat 10-4pm & Sun 12-4pm e gallery, picnic area, activity center for parent p o I and child to create crafts together, various The great outdoors is simply the best part of being d Martin Van Buren National n a Historic Site events held at the Mt. Lebanon Shaker Village d in Columbia County. e 1013 Old Post Rd (off Rt 9H), in nearby New Lebanon, self guided tours n w Kinderhook; 758-9689, late May – Oct, daily 10-5pm, closed Tues O * 6 Take the long unwinding road. area code 518 www.bestcountryroads.com 7 g I Signed Correctly Antiques & n Kinderhook i Collectibles I Kinderhook Antiques Center 19 State Rt 23; 851-7257 or Rt 9H; 758-7939, Fri-Sun 10am-5pm. p [email protected], Thurs-Mon Early glass, textiles, books, furniture/ iron- 9-4pm, Variety of furniture, glass, and ware & tools, kitchen collectibles, china & p collectibles at reasonable prices accessories at reasonable prices o Copake I Pavilion Gallery/RH Blackburn & Associates, INC h I Copake Auction, Inc 17 Broad St; 758-1788, 266 Cty Rt 7A; 329-1142, www.RHBantiques.com, call for S www.copakeauction.com, hours vary, hours.
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