Hudson River Lighthouses
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Kayaking the Hudson River- does anyone have any experience and/or suggestions?
My best friend and I want to kayak from Hudson to Kingston, staying overnight at the lighthouse in Saugerties. We plan to wear wetsuits and bring plenty of fluids, energy supplements, etc. We are both experienced. Does anyone have good advice for making this journey?
I live in Hudson, within 5 minute walking distance of the launch site. Thanks for some great advice!
This should be great fun!
There are lots of Kayakers now in the Hudson, quite a few launch from Malden NY which is just a couple miles north of the lighthouse. Pull in in Malden and check out the brickworks thats now quite a ruin but interesting....and grab a brick marked Malden as a keepsake....look for the rusted out gantry crane near a couple wrecked old barges and pull in near there (west bank) ...Clermont state park is on the east bank and is quite lovely as well.
If you can get some Kraus's Chocolates while in saugerties you'll be very happy...
Theres plenty of recreational traffic in the hudson around there, just watch out for the big commercial stuff in the channel.
Its about 15miles from hudson to the light house....should be easy...then another 10-12 depending where in kingston you're going... I dont know where you live or where your equipment is, but it might be possible to take Amtrack to hudson, then pick it up again in Rhinecliff just across the hudson from Kingston.
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Hudson River Lighthouses & History List Price: $10.95 Sale Price: $9.84  |
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Henry Hudson explored the river that now bears his name in 1609. The arrival of the steamboat 200 years later, and the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, made the Hudson one of America's busiest rivers... |
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The Lighthouse Handbook: The Hudson River and New York Harbor (The Original Lighthouse Field Guides) List Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $2.99 |
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There are seven lighthouses that light the way up the Hudson River to Albany. Many of these are famous lighthouses of significance, none more well known than the statue of Liberty and the famous Little Red Lighthouse underneath the George Washington Bridge... |
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Hudson River Lighthouses and History List Price: $4.99 |
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Henry Hudson explored the river that now bears his name in 1609. The arrival of the steamboat 200 years later, and the opening of the Erie Canal, made the Hudson one of America's busiest rivers. From 1826 until the middle of the 20th century, more than a dozen lighthouses guided ships past its islands and shallows... |
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Mid-Atlantic Lighthouses, 2nd: Hudson River to Chesapeake Bay (Lighthouse Series) List Price: $19.95 Sale Price: $5.27 |
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(Nga) Kingston Point Lighthouse - Hudson River, Kingston, NY, USA (2008) Sale Price: $79.00 |
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Among all the treasures found in the Northeast, surely the Hudson River is one of its most cherished ones. Here is a lighthouse smack in the middle of the waterway used by many oceangoing vessels sailing all the way up to Albany some 150 miles inland. |
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Moreland family,Tarrytown Lighthouse,Hudson River,1956 Sale Price: $8.99 |
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8x12in Print from a high-quality scan of the original.Title: This is home for the Moreland family - Tarrytown Light Station in the Hudson River. Richard and his wife Agnes ... Date Created/Published: 1956 July 19... |
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George Washington Bridge,Red Lighthouse,Hudson River Sale Price: $8.99 |
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8x12in Print from a high-quality scan of the original.Title: The George Washington Bridge with its good neighbor - The Little Red Lighthouse Date Created/Published: 1962 August 29. Medium: 1 photographic print... |
