A Community Earth Day get-together was a fitting way to celebrate the opening of Sojourner Truth State Park, located on land where nature is healing itself with a little TLC from New York State Parks, the Palisades Interstate Park Commission,...
A range of restaurants source from local farms, and work to bring the local Arab community together through food and advance broader cultural understanding through cuisine. Each April, Arab American Heritage Month provides an opportunity to celebrate some of the...
Paddling is — in our admittedly biased opinion at Hudson River Riders! — one of the most versatile ways to enjoy our waters and to connect with nature. Whether you’re kayaking, canoeing, rowing, or stand-up paddle-boarding, you’ll get both physical...
Megan Offner was surrounded by forests in her early life in Montana — yet the forests of the Hudson Valley region hold a special appeal. “When I first came East in college, I fell in love with New York’s deciduous...
Every season in the Hudson Valley brings its own unique and breathtaking views, from the golden leaf reflections in autumn to the mountain laurel blooming along the trails in the spring. It’s not always easy to fully capture the beauty...
This past year Scenic Hudson’s HV Viewfinder has once again shared what’s making the world greener, with a focus on the beautiful, inclusive Hudson Valley. It dove into the valley’s rich history, current happenings, and emerging solutions. Which stories resonated...
Residents of Poughkeepsie’s Northside neighborhood turned out in force to enjoy a Harvest Fest at the Pershing Avenue Neighborhood Farm + Gardens on Oct. 2, 2021. The event celebrated the first successful season in the community gardens — where local residents grew...
At age 14, Virginia Rose fell off a horse and injured her spinal cord. She’s used a wheelchair ever since. Rose discovered birding nearly two decades ago and has made it her mission to introduce people with mobility challenges to...
Not many artists think deeply about ecology and water, but artist-writer-educator Matthew Friday has done exactly that in multidisciplinary works such as DUMP!, Stories of Water and Waste, and more. Friday credits his interest in ecology to a childhood spent...
A wall-mounted phone with a rotary dial and a curly cord. A decade or two ago, an Appalachian Trail hiker like Dan Foeller could pretty safely have bet it was just another pay phone. Passing it earlier this summer, though,...