Other Weekend Activities

Dave and Buster's (Friday night)

• At 9:00pm on Friday night (April 22), we are planning on going to Dave & Buster’s (located on the top level of the Palisades Center mall, 4661 Palisades Center Drive, exit 12 off I-87/I-287 (NY State Thruway), West Nyack, NY, 10994).  If you will be coming in Friday night, you are welcome to meet us there to socialize, have a drink or play some midway-style games!  They have a bar, lots of seating room for socializing, billiards tables, and lots of games, so we think there'll be something for everyone to enjoy, whether you want to play games or just have a drink and socialize.  Please let us know if you plan on coming and we will keep an eye out for you (and keep you updated).

• There are plenty of opportunities for outdoor activity at Bear Mountain State Park--the pool and the boat rentals will not be open yet in April, but there are still plenty of hiking trails around Hessian Lake and the Hudson River, open playing fields for Frisbees or other games, scenic views, and even a carousel!  Click here for more information about the park.

Bear Mountain is located in Rockland County, NY.  Orange County, NY is to the north, and Westchester County, NY is across the Hudson River to the east.  These three counties have many historic sites, parks and other attractions.  Here is a partial list of those sites, with some links where available:

Other Parks in Rockland County, NY

• Harriman State Park/Anthony Wayne Recreation Area (adjacent to Bear Mtn State Park, exit 17 off the Palisades Parkway)
• Haverstraw Beach State Park, 21 Gagan Rd, Haverstraw, NY (13 miles/19 min from Bear Mtn)
• High Tor State Park, S. Mountain Rd, New City, NY (15 miles/19 min from Bear Mtn)
• Nyack Beach State Park, end of N. Broadway, Upper Nyack, NY (21 miles/25 min from Bear Mtn)
• Stony Point Battlefield State Historic SIte, Park Rd off 9W, Stony Point, NY (10 miles/14 min from Bear Mtn)

Hyde Park, NY (38 miles north, or 56 minutes from Bear Mountain)

• Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, home of FDR
• Franklin D. Roosevelt  Presidential Library and Museum
• Eleanor Roosevelt's home, Val-Kill Cottage, the only historic site in honor of a First Lady
• Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, fully-furnished 19th-century mansion home of Vanderbilts
• Spaceship Discovery Science & Technology Center, hands-on scientific exhibits

Piermont, NY (24 miles south, or 30 min from Bear Mountain)
see www.rockland.org for overview of Rockland County
Antique shops, art galleries, bicycle/walking trail (Tallman Path) that runs past Hudson River's last salt-water marsh

Poughkeepsie (32 miles north, or 49 min from Bear Mountain)
The Samuel Morse Historic Site, home of artist/inventor of the telegraph and Morse code.

Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow (26 miles southeast, or 31 minutes from Bear Mountain)
See www.hudsonvalley.org  or  www.SleepyHollowChamber.com for an overview

• Kykuit, the home of the Rockefeller family
• Washington Irving's home (Sunnyside)
• The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow (national landmark that figured prominently in Washington Irving's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow")
• Lyndhurst, a Gothic mansion designed by Alexander Jackson Davis

West Point (8 miles north, or 14 min from Bear Mountain)
West Point Museum, the nation's largest and oldest army museum (free admission)
 

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