Rooftops in Troy, New York. Less than two hours from New York City, the Hudson Valley has long been an easy escape for city dwellers—and you don’t even need a car, with Metro-North and Amtrak trains ...

The Understory’s H.E.R.E. initiative combines practitioner guilds, a $4 million grant program, and a new journal focused on Hudson Valley resilience.

One of New York's smaller state parks is a scenic gem overlooking the Hudson River. Franny Reese State Park is a perfect getaway year-round for hiking, exploring abandoned ruins, and taking in river ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gary Stoller is an award-winning travel and investigative journalist. (This is the second of a two-part series providing travelers ...

Thomas Moran, "Lower Manhattan from Communipaw, New Jersey" (1880), oil on canvas; 25 1/4 x 45 1/4 inches (64.1 x 114.9 cm) (courtesy Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland) The ...

The Hudson River's widest point is 3.4 miles at Haverstraw Bay in Rockland County, NY. A tidal estuary, the Hudson River is a mix of salt water and fresh water runoff. The river is named for English ...

HUDSON, N.Y. — We stood on the lawn at the Olana State Historic Site, the beloved and opulent home of Frederic Church, a 19th-century landscape artist and member of the Hudson River School, America’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I have family in New Paltz and have spent a fair amount of time there, so I can personally attest to the charm of this college ...

There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over the Hudson Valley on a weekday morning in spring. Fog lifts off the river, old stone walls run alongside country roads, and the towns sitting ...

Often in the weeks since Memorial Day weekend, as I've stood on the rocky, man-made shores of the Yonkers, N.Y. waterfront overlooking the Hudson River, I've found myself wondering about one thing as ...

MIDDLETOWN — An account of the American eels’ abundance in a major tributary to the Hudson River from the early 1800s follows attempts to drain wetlands around the Wallkill River in Orange County.