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 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 The Appalachian Trail and James Baird State Park
• Rock-climb at the Shawangunk mountains
• Golf on Vassar’s own 9-hole course or the Robert Trent Jones designed course at nearby Casperkill Country Club
• Visit over 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.
Theatre
• Vassar’s Powerhouse Theatre and Martel Theatre
• Poughkeepsie's venerable Bardavon Opera House
• Paramount Center for the Arts in nearby Putnam County
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
November in the Valley
Family Fun
Weekends in November
The Rhinecliff: Sundays-- Jazz Brunch -- 11:30am to 2:30pm
2009 Tours at Staatsburgh State Historic Site are in full swing.
The Cubby Hole: Poetry Nights