Travel Essentials
Amtrak Empire Service between Albany, Hudson or Rhinecliff, NY and Penn Station, NYC
Bonanza Bus Lines between Williamstown, Lee, Stockbridge, Great Barrington, MA, or Canaan, CT and Port Authority Bus Terminal, NYC
Metro-North Railroad between Wassaic, Dover Plains, or Poughkeepsie, NY and Harlem (125th Street) or Grand Central Station, NYC
Weather Underground
The radar is especially useful for tracking snow, sleet and thunderstorms.
Gas Prices
The price of gas at many of the stations in your area (enter zip code) and those immediately surrounding it.
Historic Homes, Museums & Gardens
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Montgomery Place 434-acre intact Hudson River Valley estate
Athens, NY
Howard Hall Farm a laboratory for restoration training
Austerlitz, NY
Old Austerlitz
Catskill, NY
Cedar Grove home of Hudson River School founder, painter Thomas Cole
Hudson, NY
The American Museum of Firefighting
Hyde Park, NY
Home of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Vanderbilt Mansion relic of the Gilded Age
Germantown, NY
Clermont an early Hudson River estate
Olana home of Hudson River School painter Frederic Church
Kent, CT
Sloane Stanley Museum artist’s studio and tool collection
Kinderhook, NY
U. S. President Martin Van Buren house
Lenox, MA
The Mount Edith Wharton’s estate and gardens
Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio Cubist paintings in a Modernist house
Ventfort Hall the Gilded Age Museum
Old Chatham, NY
Shaker Museum and Library
Pittsfield, MA
Hancock Shaker Village
Arrowhead home of Herman Melville.
Rhinebeck, NY
Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome aircraft and auto museum; air shows
Wilderstein Historic Site elaborate Queen-Anne style house of the Suckleys.
Poughkeepsie, NY
Locust Grove home of Samuel F.B. Morse
Sheffield, MA
Ashley House c. 1735 house; oldest in Berkshire County
Staatsburgh, NY
Mills Mansion house remodeled in Beaux Arts style by McKim, Mead & White
Stockbridge, MA
Chesterwood Estate & Museum home of Lincoln memorial sculptor Daniel Chester French
Mission House 1739 house with Colonial Revival garden
Naumkeag McKim, Mead & White summer cottage and gardens
Williamstown, MA
The Folly at Field Farm Modenist house and sculpture garden
If you’re a really serious locovore and want to understand the farm life, you should attend one of the agricultural or county fairs that are rites of late summer in our region. Sure, there are carnival rides for the kids and more types of fried food than you ever imagined, but the heart of the fair remains the animal and agricultural competitions and exhibitions—the sheep shearing, tractor pulls and giant zucchini contests. The participants are the men, women and children who control the fate of our region’s future in their calloused hands. Cheer them on.
