Nyack Beach State Park

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Nyack Beach State Park is a 61-acre state park in Upper Nyack, Rockland County, New York. It consists of a small parking lot and a riverfront pathway, the southernmost section of the Hudson River Valley Greenway. It is known for its physical proximity to the Hudson River on one side of the pathway and the looming cliffs of the Palisades rising 700 feet above on the other side. ()

Created: 1911Visitors per year: 169.7 thous.Elevation: 36 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 41°7'15"N, 73°54'41"W

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Nyack Beach State Park – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Palisades Center, Sleepy Hollow Country Club, Hopper House Art Center, Beechwood.

2.8 miSW
Shopping, Shopping centre
Palisades Center, Nyack
73 min walk • Palisades Center is a shopping mall in West Nyack, New York, notable for being the second-largest shopping mall in the New York metropolitan area, the eighth-largest in the United States by total area, and sixth-largest by gross leasable space.
3 miE
Sport, Sport venue
Sleepy Hollow Country Club, Briarcliff Manor
77 min walk • Sleepy Hollow Country Club is a historic country club in Scarborough-on-Hudson in Briarcliff Manor, New York. The club was founded in 1911, and its clubhouse was known as Woodlea, a 140-room Vanderbilt mansion owned by Colonel Elliott Fitch Shepard and his wife Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard.
1.9 miS
Art gallery, Historical place, Shopping
Hopper House Art Center, Nyack
49 min walk • Edward Hopper Birthplace and Boyhood Home, also known as the Edward Hopper House Art Center, is an art center and historic home located at 82 North Broadway, 3 1/2 blocks north of Main Street, Nyack in Rockland County, New York.
2.7 miE
Park, Vernacular architecture
Beechwood, Briarcliff Manor
70 min walk • Beechwood is a Hudson River estate in Scarborough-on-Hudson, in Briarcliff Manor, New York. The estate was most notably the home of Frank A. Vanderlip and his family, and is a contributing property to the Scarborough Historic District. The house and property were owned by the Vanderlip family from 1906 to 1979.
2.4 miS
Church, Romanesque architecture
St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Nyack
62 min walk • St. Paul's United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church in Nyack, Rockland County, New York. It is a Romanesque church built in two sections over a 17-year period starting in 1894.
3.3 miSE
Church
Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, Sleepy Hollow
85 min walk • The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Dutch Reformed Church, is a 17th-century stone church located on Albany Post Road in Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States.
3.2 miSE
Cemetery
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow
81 min walk • Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York, is the final resting place of numerous famous figures, including Washington Irving, whose 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in the adjacent burying ground at the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow.
3.5 miE
Modernist architecture
Julian Street Jr. residence, Briarcliff Manor
89 min walk • The Julian Street Jr. residence is an early Modernist fieldstone house in Briarcliff Manor, New York. The house was designed by the New York architect Wallace K. Harrison for Julian Street Jr. and his wife, Narcissa, in 1938.
3.5 miS
Bridge
Tappan Zee Bridge, Palisades
91 min walk • The Tappan Zee Bridge, officially named the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, is a twin cable-stayed bridge spanning the Hudson River between Tarrytown and Nyack in the U.S. state of New York. It was built to replace the original Tappan Zee Bridge, which was located just to the south.
2.7 miE
Universities and schools
Scarborough Day School, Briarcliff Manor
70 min walk • The Scarborough Day School was a private school in Scarborough-on-Hudson, in Briarcliff Manor, New York. Frank and Narcissa Cox Vanderlip established the school in 1913 at their estate, Beechwood.
2.3 miS
Hiking, Hiking trail
Raymond G. Esposito Trail, Nyack
60 min walk • The Raymond G. Esposito Trail is a 1.1 mile north-south rail trail located in the village of South Nyack, Rockland County, New York.