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Hudson Highlands State Park is a non-contiguous state park in the U.S. state of New York, located on the east side of the Hudson River. The park runs from Peekskill in Westchester County, through Putnam County, to Beacon in Dutchess County, in the eastern section of the Hudson Highlands. The park's lands, heavily mined, logged and quarried in ...
Prior to European exploration, the Hudson Highlands were inhabited by Native American Lenape people. Henry Hudson and his crew on the Half Moon were the first Europeans known to see the Highlands when they explored the river in 1609. Map of West Point fortifications from 1775–1783, depicting the positioning of the Hudson River Chain, 1778-1782.
Beacon Mountain, locally Mount Beacon, is the highest peak of Hudson Highlands, located south of City of Beacon, New York, in the Town of Fishkill. Its two summits rise above the Hudson River behind the city and can easily be seen from Newburgh across the river and many other places in the region. The more accessible northern peak, at 1,516 ...
Dunderberg Mountain is a 1,086-foot (331 m) mountain on the west bank of the Hudson River at the southern end of the Hudson Highlands. [ 3][ 4] It lies just above Jones Point, New York, within Bear Mountain State Park and the town of Stony Point in Rockland County, New York . Dunderberg (also historically Donderberg) is a Dutch word, meaning ...
For the mountain near Breakneck Ridge, see Sugarloaf Mountain (Dutchess County, New York). Sugarloaf Hill is a 785 ft (239 m) peak along the Hudson River in Putnam County, New York, part of the Hudson Highlands. It was named by the Dutch for its resemblance in outline to a sugarloaf when sailing up the river towards it.
road. Bear Mountain is one of the best-known peaks of New York 's Hudson Highlands. Located partially in Orange County in the town of Highlands and partially in Rockland County in the town of Stony Point, it lends its name to the nearby Bear Mountain Bridge and Bear Mountain State Park that contains it. Its summit, accessible by a paved road ...
The Wilkinson Memorial Trail is a public footpath in the Hudson Highlands region of the U.S. state of New York.It generally follows the Dutchess–Putnam county line along the latter's northwest corner, from the banks of the Hudson River near Breakneck Ridge to North Highland, [1] just south of the county line in Philipstown.
Sugarloaf Mountain is a 900-foot (270 m) peak located in the town of Fishkill near the Hudson River and Breakneck Ridge. One of several similarly named mountains in the U.S. state of New York, [2] it is part of the Hudson Highlands, located entirely within Hudson Highlands State Park. It can be climbed via the Wilkinson Memorial Trail, which ...