August 28, 2005

Driving up the Hudson to Columbia County farmland

Just two hours up the Hudson River from New York City, Columbia County is "as close to the Loire as North America can get," London's Telegraph declares in a feature that focuses on the little river town of Hudson. While the region can easily be reached by train, the Telegraph makes a case for the drive:

In many ways, Columbia County is best discovered by accident. It is a driver's paradise, with well-maintained, often empty roads that dip, curve and rise as if auditioning for a car commercial.

The roads pass white clapboard farms and deep-red wooden barns beside grain silos. At times, a drive through countryside that seems English becomes, over the crest of a hill, dramatic and alluring with the Catskill mountains as a backdrop and the Hudson river meandering through the valley.

August 28, 2005 03:08 AM in Kids, Out of Manhattan, Romance

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