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To the average commuter, the Hudson River is just an inconvenient barrier en route to New Jersey. However, you only need to travel a few miles north of Manhattan before the valley takes on a Rhine-like charm, with prodigious historic homes, such as those of the Roosevelt, Vanderbilt and van Cortland families, rising from its steep and thickly wooded banks. A little further on come the forests of the Catskill Mountains , whose brilliant fall colors rival anything to be seen in New England. Few of the cities along the Hudson, including the large but lackluster state capital of Albany , hold much to attract the visitor, but some of the small towns are worth checking out, most notably the New Agey village of Woodstock , nestled among the Catskills.

Hudson Valley and the Catskills

• Hudson Valley and the Catskills

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