What to do and see
Witness the breathtaking views of the Hudson River Valley from the Gilded Age mansions 
dotting its shores…step back in time to the sites of our nation's fight for independence…then fast forward to airshows highlighting the biplanes and barnstormers of the early 20th century.
Art
• Vassar’s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
• Dia:Beacon modern art museum
• Storm King Art Center and sculpture park
• Katonah Museum of Art
History
• Olana, home of 19th century Hudson Valley artist Fredric Church
• Franklin D. Roosevelt home and Presidential library
• Val-Kill, Eleanor Roosevelt’s Hyde Park home
• The Vanderbilt summer estate at Hyde Park
• Kykuit, the Rockefeller home in Sleepy Hollow
• Staatsburg, Ruth and Ogden Mills’ Beaux-Arts mansion
• Clermont, home of Robert Livingston, who
co-invented the first steam-powered-boat with Robert Fulton
• Locust Grove, the Samuel F. B. Morse home
• Sunnyside, the country home of novelist Washington Irving
Outdoors
• Hike along The Appalachian Trail and James Baird State Park
• Rock-climb at the Shawangunk mountains
• Golf on Vassar’s own 9-hole course as well as the Robert Trent Jones designed course at nearby Casperkill Country Club
• Visit more than 20 wineries along the Hudson Valley Wine Trail
• Innisfree Garden - 150 acre public garden with a lake, surrounded by cliffs, low hills, waterfalls and streams.
From the country homes of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt to the artifacts of early Quaker days, explore a lifetime of history in Dutchess County and the Hudson River Valley, a National Heritage Area.
In the Area
Holiday Whodunit
Family Fun
Sundays in December
Staatsburgh State Historic Site
The 2007 Holiday Season at Staatsburgh State Historic Site is in full swing.
Staatsburgh conducts its third annual Holiday Whodunit for children on Sundays in December: 9, 16, 23 and 30th from 1– 4pm.
The event is just as popular with parents as the children for whom it was designed.
Reservations required.