Blauvelt State Park
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Blauvelt State Park is located in the Town of Orangetown
in Rockland County, New York
, not far from the Hudson River
. The park is south of Nyack, New York
.
This is an undeveloped park with no facilities other than hiking trails and limited parking. The park links with several other town and county parks, including Clausland Mountain Park, Buttermilk Falls Park, Tackamack Park and the Schuyler/Bradley Park, creating a largely seamless park range on the Hudson Palisades. The Long Path
, a hiking trail linking Fort Lee, New Jersey to the Adirondacks of New York, travels through the park. The park offers several outlooks over the Hudson River and the Tappan Zee
. Finally the park contains the ruins of an abandoned World War I rifle range, Camp Bluefields. The tunnels that connected the down range targets to the firing line remain. The adjacent Clausland Mountain Park and Nike Site is the former home of a Nike missile launch site. During the Cold War the site was part of a ring of Nike surface to air missiles surrounding New York City intended to defend New York City from Soviet bombers.
An article about Blauvelt, NY, by Firth Haring Fabend appears in South of the Mountains (The Historical Society of Rockland County), Vol. 50, No. 2, April-June 2006. The title is "From Jan Claus' Land to 'tGreynbos to Greenbush to Blauveltville to Blauvelt."
Orangetown, New York
Orangetown is a town in Rockland County, New York, United States located in the southeast part of the county. It is northwest of New York City; north of New Jersey; east of the town of Ramapo; south of the town of Clarkstown; west of the Hudson River. The population was 47,711 at the 2000 census.-...
in Rockland County, New York
Rockland County, New York
Rockland County is a suburban county 15 miles to the northwest of Manhattan and part of the New York City Metropolitan Area, in the U.S. state of New York. It is the southernmost county in New York west of the Hudson River, and the smallest county in New York outside of New York City. The...
, not far from the Hudson River
Hudson River
The Hudson is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York. The highest official source is at Lake Tear of the Clouds, on the slopes of Mount Marcy in the Adirondack Mountains. The river itself officially begins in Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York...
. The park is south of Nyack, New York
Nyack, New York
Nyack is a village in the towns of Orangetown and Clarkstown in Rockland County, New York, United States, located north of South Nyack; east of Central Nyack; south of Upper Nyack and west of the Hudson River, approximately 19 miles north of the Manhattan boundary, it is an inner suburb of New...
.
This is an undeveloped park with no facilities other than hiking trails and limited parking. The park links with several other town and county parks, including Clausland Mountain Park, Buttermilk Falls Park, Tackamack Park and the Schuyler/Bradley Park, creating a largely seamless park range on the Hudson Palisades. The Long Path
Long Path
The Long Path is a long-distance hiking trail beginning at the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, New Jersey and currently ending at Altamont, New York, in the Albany area...
, a hiking trail linking Fort Lee, New Jersey to the Adirondacks of New York, travels through the park. The park offers several outlooks over the Hudson River and the Tappan Zee
Tappan Zee
The Tappan Zee is a natural widening of the Hudson River, about 3 mi across at its widest, in southeastern New York in the United States. It stretches about 10 mi along the boundary between Rockland and Westchester counties, downstream from Croton Point to Irvington...
. Finally the park contains the ruins of an abandoned World War I rifle range, Camp Bluefields. The tunnels that connected the down range targets to the firing line remain. The adjacent Clausland Mountain Park and Nike Site is the former home of a Nike missile launch site. During the Cold War the site was part of a ring of Nike surface to air missiles surrounding New York City intended to defend New York City from Soviet bombers.
An article about Blauvelt, NY, by Firth Haring Fabend appears in South of the Mountains (The Historical Society of Rockland County), Vol. 50, No. 2, April-June 2006. The title is "From Jan Claus' Land to 'tGreynbos to Greenbush to Blauveltville to Blauvelt."