The Hudson Valley spreads across 47 towns and offers nearly everything you can do on foot, bike, or water. We've organized 61 places here, from the Ashokan Reservoir's flat rail trail in West Hurley and its southern promenade in Shokan to the technical singletrack at Blue Mountain Reservation near Peekskill and the mountain-biking network at Depot Hill in Beekman. You'll find easy walks to waterfalls—Awosting Falls in Kerhonkson reaches a 60-foot plunge in thirty minutes—alongside more demanding hikes through Black Rock Forest near Cornwall and the 1,500-acre preserves that dot the region. Many trails are free, dog-friendly, and manageable for families. We've flagged the places we return to most, marked the worthy detours, and organized everything by difficulty and season.
Lake Minnewaska and Lake Awosting, two of the world's five sky lakes, sit inside the same 24,000-acre preserve as easy carriage-road walks from the Kerhonkson gate, with Awosting Falls and the Gertrude's Nose cliff loop both reachable from the same lot.
