More Hudson Happenings (7/22-7/23/26)

As with everywhere it seems, we’ve had a bit of weather. So far, we’ve been very lucky. Tuesday was a rain-filled day where it really poured for quite a few hours. I think we got 4.8 inches, but we were under a flood and tornado watch and luckily neither of those materialized for Tarrytown. Except for a couple of quick errands in downtown, we were in all day Tuesday.

Yesterday, we wanted to do some walking but nowhere that might have been really impacted by all the water, so we headed down near the coast of the Hudson River to check out two restaurants that were near the yacht and boat clubs to see how they looked and the best way to get to them if we decide to go sometime.

Some fun facts about the Hudson River since it figures so predominately in our time here. It is 315 miles long, flowing from the Adirondack Mountains to the Atlantic and forming part of the border with New Jersey. The lower 154 miles (including where we are) are a tidal estuary which means saltwater from the ocean mixes with freshwater from the river. While it is now named for the explorer Henry Hudson, the native Lenape tribe gave it a name which means river that flows both ways, as it does appear to do that in the estuary part of the river.

Today, we went a tiny bit further afield and drove to another portion of the huge Rockefeller State Park Preserve to see more of the park. This section of the preserve, separated a bit from the main sections, had free (although somewhat limited) parking.

The Rockwood Hall section is aptly named as it is the site of William Rockefeller’s former mansion of that name. The mansion, which was designed by Frederick Law Olmstead of Central Park fame, had 202 rooms, but sadly, no longer exists.