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Bear Mountain State Park is a 5,205-acre (21.06 km 2) state park located on the west bank of the Hudson River in Rockland and Orange counties, New York. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] The park offers biking, hiking, boating, picnicking, swimming, cross-country skiing , cross-country running, sledding and ice skating.
Bear Mountain was once the premier ski jumping site in the United States. Because of its reputation as a ski jumping location, Bear Mountain was considered as a possible site for the 1932 Winter Olympics, which were held in Lake Placid, New York. The ski jump run has not been used in decades, and its stone steps built into the eastern side of ...
The Bear Mountain State Parkway (also known as the Bear Mountain Parkway) is a state parkway located in northern Westchester County, New York, in the United States.It is an incomplete highway, with a 3.85-mile (6.20 km) western section and a 0.73-mile (1.17 km) eastern section; both sections comprise New York State Route 987H (NY 987H), the unsigned reference route assigned to the road by the ...
Bear Mountain NY Just 50 miles north of New York City, this scenic community is located in Rockland and Orange counties. Bear Mountain State Park has one of the best known peaks in eastern New York.
The Bear Mountain Bridge is the oldest of the New York State Bridge Authority's bridges. Crossing the Hudson River and bordering Putnam and Westchester counties on the east and Orange and Rockland ...
Although the ruins of Fort Montgomery survive and the site is a National Historic Landmark, the Fort Clinton site was destroyed in the 1920s during the construction of U.S. Route 9W and the Bear Mountain Bridge. [4] Today, the Fort Clinton site lies within Bear Mountain State Park and is used for the Trailside Museum and Zoo.
At Bear Mountain, a gift of 10,000 acres and $1,000,000 by Mary W. Harriman led to the establishing of Bear Mountain and Harriman State Parks. Today, Bear Mountain receives over 2 million annual visitors and Harriman is the second largest state park in New York.
The Bear Mountain Inn is a 1915 hotel, restaurant and spa owned by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission and located in Bear Mountain State Park just south of the Bear Mountain Bridge in Rockland County, New York. It is now called the Bear Mountain Inn & Conference Center and features the 1915 Cafe and the Bear Mountain Trading Company gift ...