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Pollepel Island. Coordinates: 41°27′19″N 73°59′20″W. The island and castle viewed from atop Breakneck Ridge. Pollepel Island / pɒlɪˈpɛl / is a 6.5-acre (26,000 m 2) uninhabited island in the Hudson River in New York, United States. The principal feature on the island is Bannerman's Castle, an abandoned military surplus warehouse.
Website. Schodack Island State Park. Schodack Island State Park (formerly known as Castleton Island State Park[5]) is a 1,052-acre (4.26 km 2) state park that spans portions of Rensselaer, Greene, and Columbia counties, New York. [2] The park is located between the Hudson River and Schodack Creek, and was opened in 2002.
The Hudson River is a 315-mile (507 km) river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York, United States.It originates in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York at Henderson Lake in the town of Newcomb, and flows southward through the Hudson Valley to the New York Harbor between New York City and Jersey City, eventually draining into the Atlantic Ocean at Upper New ...
The Hudson Valley has long been considered the birthplace of the modern American environmental movement.In the 1960s, a small group of scientists, fishermen, and concerned citizens led by Robert H. Boyle, author of The Hudson River, A Natural and Unnatural History and a senior writer [6] at Sports Illustrated, were determined to reverse the decline of the then-polluted Hudson River by ...
Schermerhorn Island, a former island in Bethlehem, New York. Schodack Island, in Schodack, New York. Shad Island, [4] a former island in Coeymans, New York. Stomy Island, within the village and town of Green Island, Hudson River on both sides, north of Center Island [5] Van Rensselaer Island, a former island [3] in Rensselaer, New York.
Croton-on-Hudson (/ kroʊtɪn / KROH-tin) is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 8,327 at the 2020 United States census over 8,070 at the 2010 census. [ 2 ] It is located in the town of Cortlandt as part of New York City 's northern suburbs. The village was incorporated in 1898.
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 ...
44°01′05″N 74°03′10″W / 44.0181°N 74.0528°W / 44.0181; -74.0528. The Opalescent River is a river in Essex County, New York. It is both a tributary of and the longest source of the Hudson River. Part of the river is designated by New York State as a Wild River in the Wild, Scenic, and Recreational Rivers system. [1]