Things to Do
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
124 Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie, NY
845-437-5632
Vassar’s collection of over 20,000 works spanning the history of art from ancient Egypt to present-day America, including an extensive collection of works from the Hudson River School
Franklin D. Roosevelt Home, Presidential Library, and Museum
114 Estates Lane
Hyde Park, NY
1-800-FDR-VISIT
National Historic Site: Springwood, FDR’s lifelong home, and the presidential library and museum (operated by the National Archives)
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site (Val-Kill)
54 Valkill Park Road
Hyde Park, NY
845-229-9422
National Historic Site: Stone Cottage at Val-Kill, the home of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
Vanderbilt Mansion
119 Vanderbilt Park Road
Hyde Park, NY
845-299-7770
National Historic Site: 54-room mansion of Frederick and Louise Vanderbilt, built between 1896 and 1898
Locust Grove, the Samuel Morse Historic Site
2683 South Road
Poughkeepsie, NY
845-454-4500
The home of inventor Samuel F.B. Morse, designed by Andrew Jackson Davis, with an extensive collection of art and period furnishings
Dia: Beacon
3 Beekman Street
Beacon, NY
845-440-0100
Dia’s collection of art from the 1960s to the present, with major works by artists such as Andy Warhol, Richard Serra, and Dan Flavin
Olana State Historic Site
5720 State Route 9G
Hudson, NY
518-828-0135
Home of Frederic Edwin Church, one of the major artists of the Hudson River School of landscape painting
Storm King Art Center
1 Museum Road
New Windsor, NY
845-534-3115
Open-air museum with the largest collection of contemporary outdoor sculptures in the U.S.
Hudson Valley Renegades
1500 Route 9D
Wappingers Falls, NY
845-838-0094
Minor league baseball
Appalachaian Trail
30 miles of the trail cross the southeast corner of Dutchess County.
Mohonk Preserve
3197 US-44
Gardiner, NY
845-255-0919
8,000 acres of cliffs, forests, fields, ponds, and streams in the Shawangunk Mountains
Walkway Over the Hudson
61 Parker Avenue
Poughkeepsie, NY
845-454-9649
The longest elevated pedestrian bridge in the world (212 feet tall, 1.28 miles long)
Powerhouse Theater
124 Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie, NY
845-437-5907
New plays, musical workshops, and readings of works-in-progress on the Vassar campus each summer. A collaboration between Vassar College and New York Stage and Film
Bardavon 1869 Opera House
35 Market Street
Poughkeepsie, NY
845-473-2072
The oldest continuously operating theater in the state, the Bardavon is home to the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and the primary venue for touring artists and musicians.
Dutchess County Rail Trail
845-298-4600
13-mile trail from the Walkway Over the Hudson in Poughkeepsie to Hopewell Junction
Upstate Films
6415 Montgomery Street
Rhinebeck, NY
845-876-2515
Foreign, independent, documentary, and animated films as well as lectures by guest filmmakers, scholars, and critics
Trevor Zoo
131 Millbrook School Road
Millbrook, NY
845-677-3704
At the Milbrook School, the zoo was founded by Frank Trevor, the school’s first biology teacher, and today houses 80 different species including nine endangered species.
Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum
75 N. Water Street
Poughkeepsie, NY
845-471-0589
A destination for families with young children with exhibits that focus on early literacy, art, and early STEM education
Poughkeepsie Galleria
2001 South Road (Route 9)
Poughkeepsie, NY
845-297-7600
Premier shopping destination with department stores, specialty shops, restaurants, and a multiplex theater
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