Expanded Hudson River School Art Trail Opens for Season

  • June 18, 2013 16:37

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View from the c. 1815 Main House at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site.

Search for the sublime this summer with a weekend guided hike on the Hudson River School Art Trail. Starting Saturday, you can escape in 19th-century style on a tour to a cool mountain top with exceptional scenery enjoyed by scores of painters since the 1800s. Hikes throughout the summer start from various locations in New York and New England.

There are only a few spots left for the season's first reservations-only hike, departing June 22 at 9am from the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New York.

The hike includes a visit to one of the most dramatic vistas in the Catskills: Sunset Rock, followed by the site of the famous Catskill Mountain House hotel. The package price per person is $17, or $15 for members, and includes the guided hike, a copy of the new expanded edition of the Hudson River School Art Trail Guidebook, entrance fee to the North-South State Park, and a tour of the Thomas Cole House.

An expansion last year of the renowned Hudson River School Art Trail, which includes locations painted by the renowned Hudson River School artists, more than doubled the Art Trail’s size – from its original eight sites in New York to 17 sites in New York, two in New Hampshire, one pending in Wyoming, and one in Massachusetts.

The Hudson River School Art Trail was launched in 2005 by the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, in partnership with the Olana State Historic Site and other organizations, to provide a series of hiking and driving trails that lead visitors to the places that inspired America’s first great landscape paintings, in the 19th century. The artists who created those paintings – including Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Jasper Cropsey, Asher B.Durand, Sanford Gifford and many others – were part of the art movement now known as the Hudson River School and created sublime landscape images throughout the Hudson Valley and beyond. Today, artists continue to create work that is inspired and informed by their experience in the very same landscapes.
A listing of all 22 sites, and related visitors’ information, is available on the website
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