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Learn how to create your own. Historic Hudson River Towns, Inc. is a consortium of municipalities located along New York’s Hudson River, from Yonkers to Albany, organized under an Inter ...
Coordinates: 74°01′42″W. The Hudson River is a 315-mile (507 km) river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York, United States.
Hudson River Park spans six New York City neighborhoods. See what’s happening in yours! Hudson River Park is where you go in NYC for recreation, relaxing, events, culture, dining, panoramic views and more. Find out what it has to inspire you…. Explore the Hudson River Park interactive map and plan your visit to the Park.
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The Hudson River originates from the Lake Tear of the Clouds that is located close to the base of Mount Marcy in the Adirondack MountainRange at an elevation of 1,317m. In the initial stages of its course, the river is known as the Feldspar Brook till it joins with the Opalescent River. The river is then known as the Opalescent River which flows so...
Geologists consider the Hudson River to be a “drowned river”. It is believed that after the end of the Wisconsin Glaciation, the rising sea levels led to a marine incursion that drowned the coastal plains and bought the saline waters above the mouth of the Hudson River. Due to the glaciation and the rising sea levels, the lower portion of the river...
It has been recorded that currently there are about 220 species of fish in the Hudson River. Some of the major fishes that are found here include American shad, striped bass, American eels, glass eels, Atlantic tomcod, hogchoker flatfish, northern pipefish, Atlantic sturgeon, etc. In addition to the fishes, several zooplanktons, oligochaete worms, ...
Before the arrival of the Europeans, the area around the Hudson River was inhabited by several indigenous people mainly by the Mahican, Lenape, and Wappinger branches of the Algonquians group. The Mahicans named the river “Muhhekunnetuk”, which means the river that flows two ways and is believed to refer to the river’s long tidal range. The first E...
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Loop down the west shore of the Hudson and back up through the Catskill foothills and Helderberg Mountains west of Albany, NY
The Hudson estuary stretches 153 miles from Troy to New York Harbor, nearly half the river's 315 mile course between Lake Tear of the Clouds in the Adirondacks and the Battery at the tip of Manhattan. The estuary feels the ocean's tidal pulse all the way to Troy.
