Walkway Over the Hudson

The Walkway over the Hudson is becoming Poughkeepsie's pride and joy. Admirers of the Hudson Valley love this walkway because of the vastness of the Hudson River and the unique full view of Poughkeepsie, NY. It has been my pleasure to take photos of the curious walkway along with encorporating Poughkeepsie's springtime and summer flair. The structure itself is a great monument of man's ingenuity and nature's strength.

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We've taken guests visiting from Europe to the Walkway, not because it's razzle dazzle, but because there is no other experience like it in the Northeast. You are outside, it's free, it's easy to get to, and now, a year after the grand opening, there is food and often entertainment on the Walkway to accompany a gorgeous, fresh air stroll over the Hudson River. Enjoying the crowd of leisurely walkers, bikers, in-line skaters, families with strollers and couples with dogs, our friends enjoyed the Walkway Over the Hudson more than any other site during their entire vacation in the States.

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When the Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge opened in 1889, it was considered an engineering marvel. The world’s longest bridge, it spanned even longer across, and higher above, the water than the more celebrated Brooklyn Bridge. For nearly a century it served as a crucial rail link between Pennsylvania coal country and New England’s factory towns before a 1974 structural fire rendered it useless. But last fall, after a quixotic 17-year-long fundraising and public information campaign, the 1.28-mile-long Walkway Over the Hudson was opened as the longest pedestrian bridge in the world. Hundreds of thousands of walkers have flocked to the unlikely span already. Looking down at the silver Hudson River waters from higher up than Niagara Falls, it’s easy to imagine that more will likely follow.

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