For those who would rather be by the Hudson River then on it, there are also a lot of riverfront parks to see. Starting from the North you can visit Croton George Park, and working your way down you can visit Pierson Park, Kingsland Point Park, and Croton Point Park in the South. The Mid-Hudson area offers many estates open to the public including, stretching from Columbia to Dutchess County, Olana, Clermont, Montgomery Place, Mills Mansion, Vanderbilt Mansion, Springwood, and Sunnyside. And don't forget that the Hudson offers many museums as well including, from north to south, the Cortland Heritage Museum, the Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kingston, and the Peekskill Museum. People who come to the Hudson for a short visit get all that they bargained for plus more.
Activities never run short and magical views are easy to come by.
Tourism provides a good source of income for the Hudson Valley. Half of the money that the visitors spend is immediately turned into salaries, wages, and proprietary income. A check of hotel registration shows that 45 percent of all tourists to the Hudson Valley come purely for pleasure. In the counties of Columbia, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester, half of the top 12 attractions are riverfront attractions. These include West Point, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Historic Site, the Boscobel Restoration, and Kykuit.