The entire day went great sitting around the fall, relaxing reading taking pictures watching the…read moreducks. I just enjoying our day there. Perfect perfect day. Happy Birthday escape for my sweetheart and me

Nice area, but not very large. You will spend about a half hour at the falls. It is worth the…read morevisit. There are plenty of parking spaces. If you use google, it directs to make a left. Follow the sign that directs you to go right.

Beautiful ground and mansion. We were here on a Saturday morning. We walked around the ground…read morebefore they were open. Paid for the self guided tour of the mansion. The staff here are all very friendly and knowledgeable. Beautiful decoration inside the mansion during Christmas time. Highly recommended!

Led by a very highly skilled federal staff and volunteers…read more Wonderfully kept and truly q great place to visit. A Pike County PA treasure.

This cave is actually Fulmer mine area. Enjoy the hike up the mountain. Extremely hot, that day so…read morewe stood at the mouth of the cave to cool down! Area known for being a source of hematite. Will hike around the area again as there are several trails to hike. Delaware river is at the base and got a nice view of tubers enjoying the river along the way. We'll have to try that too sometime.

Great hike! I would recommend this hike to everyone. Very nice views. We did the whole loop and was…read moreworth it

Awesome wedding venue!!! So well run, quick bartenders and food service. We were greeted by alpacas…read moreand beautiful scenery, shaded, grassy areas perfect for socializing with the crew. The cocktail hour was held in a separate building from the rest of the ceremony. There were a ton of food options for the cocktail hour. Charcuterie, a pasta bar with a delicious mushroom bolognese, and lots of drink options. Everything was beautiful, lots of decks and corners to round, and places to gather. Never had to fight anybody for a place to sit or anything. The actual reception room was large, but felt very intimate. The chairs were comfortable. The acoustics were good enough I could hear everybody at my table while the band was still playing. There were plenty of bathrooms. After the sun went down, they started a bonfire outside. There were lots of mosquitos out, though. We only sat out there a couple minutes because we were getting eaten up. I wouldn't expect them to spray the whole property, but I imagine there might be some sort of bug control solution that could work for event nights. Tiki torches? Citronella something? We had so much fun, and Waterloo really was beautiful. I'm sure that most events here play Waterloo by ABBA. It was a crowd pleaser.

This is a "town" lost to time. It is a piece of history that is in desperate need of…read moreacknowledgment and repair. But it is one that should be seen regardless. I have done here for years and it has always been a peaceful walk. I just happened to go up on canal day when a lot of the buildings are open and people are allowed to look around inside them. It is a great doorway to our country's past. I would suggest anyone to go at least once.

Beautiful tour this morning of the historic Rutherfurd Hall. Easily accessible off Route 80 [exit…read more19) in Allamuchy, NJ. Well preserved and run by a friendly staff with Joan Salvas (local historian and a great tour guide). They are planning a series of jazz concerts thru the spring, which should be interesting. The venue is also open for private parties and as a wedding venue.

Rutherfurd Hall is an amazing cultural center with an amazing historical story…read more This tutor-style house was designed by Whitney Warren, who later won the bid to design Grand Central Terminal. The landscape of the grounds were also designed by the Olmsted Brothers who became famous for designing/landscaping many of today's national parks. The Rutherfurd family lived here as early as the mid-eighteenth century, and over their families time here hosted many famous titans of industry and even future American presidents. There's a really fun/interesting story about FDR and Alice Morton. Later, Rutherfurd Hall was donated to the church and used as a type of retirement home for the nuns. Rutherfurd Hall is now owned by the Allamuchy School District who does a great job utilizing it to maintain this beautiful structure. If you go on a Wednesday, you'll be able to receive a tour through the beautiful home. Their tour guides are absolutely fantastic and know so much of the history so thoroughly it is really impressive. Rutherfurd Hall does weddings on it's own, but a local venue David's Country Inn also holds wedding ceremonies on the grounds. I'll be having my ceremony at Rutherfurd Hall and could not be more excited!

Hung out here for almost an hour and a half. The bridge is impressive and the park is well…read moremaintained with a bathroom, grill, playground, and a hiking trail. The parking lot is a bit small but as long as you down during off season you shouldn't have an issue.

It is a gorgeous park with a very nice playground for kiddos. The hike is not too bad, and easily…read moredone with a baby. The bridge itself is gorgeous, and with an incredibly intriguing history. We visited and all types of weather and just find it to be a very nice place.

Makes for a nice road trip from the city. Breathtaking views from the carved out areas where you…read morecould pull off with your car. I went on a fall weekday and it was definitely difficult to find a spot to pull over as there were plenty of people doing the same thing and taking photos however it was definitely worth the drive. Take a trip!

Breathtaking Views Use The Several Scenic Overlook Areas To Stop And Take It All In…read more "Hawk's Nest is a scenic location outside Port Jervis, New York. Its name is derived from the birds of prey that nest in the area. The location is also known for its winding roads and scenic overlooks in the Delaware River Valley." "New York State Route 97, which traverses the site, was originally a one lane dirt road beginning in 1859. It was paved between 1931-1933 and subsequently dedicated in 1939, and rededicated on September 21, 2002, as part of the "Upper Delaware Scenic Byway", according to a historical marker placed by the Town of Deerpark, where Hawk's Nest is located. The cautionary speed limit on the Hawk's Nest portion of Route 97 is 25 miles per hour (40 km/h); however, the actual speed limit is 55 mph." Truly Amazing

We found the Scranton Iron Furnaces by chance as we were driving by to go to another location and…read moredecided to pull in. I'm so glad we did because the stop was educational and unique, even if it was really really cold on the particular day we chose to visit. The original reviewer, actually the only other reviewer at the time of me posting this, gave so much information and history about this location that I will try and keep it quick. There definitely is a lot to read and a lot to learn here. The furnaces are huge, not like anything I expected, and reading the plaques makes you think about how intense it must have been here back when this place was active. Is really interesting. It's also a large open space so it was dog friendly and our dog liked walking around and sniffing the paths. There was a nice grassy area down at the bottom for her to run around in as well. It was also helpful that we were the only people there, with the exception of a city cop who seemed to be sleeping in his car or hiding from the general public. It was definitely a unique place to visit and these furnaces are worth checking out if you're in Scranton, especially if you're a history buff, but between the open space and the stairs, it's also just a good place to wander and get some steps in.

The Scranton Iron Furnaces, aka the The Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company Furnaces, represent the…read more19th century iron industry in the United States at it's finest. The four massive stone blast furnaces are the remnants of a once extensive plant operated by the Lackawanna Iron & Steel Company. Started in 1840 as Scranton, Grant & Company, the firm began as a partnership between William Henry (he had already been experimenting in New Jersey will the concept of using a "hot-blast technique" to make steel), his son-in-law Seldon Scranton, George Scranton and Sanford Grant. Henry with help from the Scrantons and other investors bought 500+ acres of land in what was then called Slocum Hollow along the Roaring Brook and set up shop building their first blast furnace in 1841. Initially the operation hemorrhaged money and had numerous production issues that plagued the company for its first few years almost driving it to bankruptcy on several occasions. Eventually by 1844 more investors were brought in so that capital could be raised for upgrades and to take care of any lingering flaws in their production model. By the summer of 1844 the furnace averaged five to seven tons of pig iron a day, but the company soon went into the more profitable business of producing T-rails for the railroad industry as there were no facilities in America where rails were capable of being produced. Everything at that point had to be ordered and shipped from Europe. In 1851, the town of Slocum's Hollow changed its name to Scranton in honor of the majority owners of the iron works for their success. (Scranton had other names in between like Harrison in honor of Presidential candidate William Henry Harrison and Scrantonia but I'm just focusing on what stuck.) By 1865 the company had the largest iron production capacity in the United States and were the second largest independent steel making operation in America.. After a long and successful run the fortunes of the company began to change due to higher labor costs, multiple strikes, higher shipping costs, changing markets and more efficient steel making processes in Europe all of which caused the company to move the operation to the Buffalo area in at the beginning of the 20th century. (The operation in the Buffalo area lasted all the way thru several mergers until Bethlehem Steel shut it down in the 1980's.) In 1903 the Scranton property was sold to the Wyoming Valley Railroad, which contracted with a Philadelphia company that scrapped all of the equipment, and tore down all the structures except the stone blast furnaces that you still see today. From the Internet: "In the late 1960s the furnaces were acquired by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and were administered under the State park system. The furnaces were transferred to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in 1971. Today the four connected stone blast furnace stacks are surrounded by 3.84 acres. The furnaces are set into the south side of a hillside with a 10 foot wide bridge, supported by masonry arches connecting them to the rock cliff. The two easternmost furnaces, dated 1848-1849, are built of smooth dressed stone blocks and stand 40 feet high and are 40 feet wide at the base. No. 3 and No. 4 furnaces were constructed c.1852 and c.1857 respectively, and are constructed of rough dressed stone blocks and also stand 40 feet high. Furnace No. 3 is 46 feet wide at the base, and furnace No. 4 is 48 feet wide at the base. All of the furnace stacks still contain vestiges of their firebrick linings. The first, third and fourth stacks contain ruins of their 19th-century hearths." If you go today what you see quite honestly isn't a whole heck of a lot. The entrance to the furnace site has two small brown NPS style signs that lead you up a narrow driveway to the parking area which has space for maybe 15-20 cars. You've got what's left of the four blast furnace stacks, an example of a T-rail along the walkway the leads from the parking lot to the upper viewing platform and an acre or two of grassy park land that sits along Roaring Brook. Worth mentioning is that there are plenty of displays at the site explaining what you're looking at but if you need more your best bet would be to head over to the Anthracite Heritage Museum which is about four miles away over in McDade Park on the other side of town. If you go: The site itself is free and open to the public daily from sunrise until sunset. There are no amenities on site although you are very close to all the fun (LOL!) that downtown Scranton has to offer including the foamtastic fun over at Steamtown. There are a few special events that occur on the grounds annually. Most notably would be the Scranton Bonfire Festival which happens every year in October.

A fantastic and historic place to see some great jazz and have dinner and drinks. Can't miss spot…read morewhen in the Poconos. Always friendly service too.

We visited the Deer Head Inn to celebrate my mom's birthday. We had some drinks, wine, and bubbly…read more Our waitress brought water to the table when the bar was backed up. We started our meal with potato skins, which I hadn't had anywhere in a long time; they were delicious with melted cheese, bacon, and thinly sliced green onions, brightening them significantly. Next, I had delightful eggplant dumplings. My family had crab cakes, beet salad, and a cheese steak. All of which were good. For dessert, I had chocolate mousse that was fluffy and intensely chocolatey. My family tried New York cheesecake and the special pumpkin bread pudding and enjoyed both. There was a jazz band who played two sets during our time there. We arrived at 7 and left at 10 pm. The band was amazing, and I would love to return again. The atmosphere is quiet outside of the music and unrushed.

There's something about the Mid-Hudson Bridge that stands out, and it's the structure, design, and…read morealso the LED lights at night. It's well supported and every time we've driven across it, we've never had any issues. The bridge only contains three lanes, and the middle lane is only served during rush hour in the morning (east) and in the late afternoon until the evening (west). During this time, a lot of traffic will occur especially when merging together from each side. Dealing with this procedure on a regular basis will eventually build in, and get the hang of it. The Ez-Pass is fully electronic now which will move things quicker when approaching eastbound. To end, there is a walkway on the side that's part of the Walkway Loop Trail. A great bridge with a lot of history and useful details.

Everybody has their version of a "happy place." For me, that "happy place" has always been the…read moreHudson Valley. When I was a kid, my parents took regular trips up to the FDR homestead in Hyde Park (my late mother was a staunch Republican, but she was a big admirer of Eleanor Roosevelt), the Vanderbilt Mansion (as a kid, I used to think I'd like to live in just such a grand palace someday, with its breathtaking views of the Hudson River below and the mountainous landscapes beyond...well, maybe in another life!), West Point, and an antiques fair every October in Salisbury, CT. Even as a restless kid with a short attention span, I loved our car rides up there and thought of the region as the epitome of nature's majestic grandeur and calming, historic beauty-- as far as I'm concerned, if God does exist, he exists in the Hudson Valley (although the residents of the City of Poughkeepsie or the City of Newburgh might tend to disagree with me). When I was in grade school, we were close enough geographically to the area to enable our class to take field trips upstate, and we always came across this bridge. I never paid much attention to how we got to the bridge, but I remember vividly the slanting, sloping ride down from the tolls to the bridge itself. Years later, exploring the area as an adult, unsure of where I was going, I stumbled onto the Rt 9W entrance to the bridge, and was delighted at the old memories it immediately brought to mind. Taking that ride down from the tolls to the actual bridge as an adult brought back memories in the same way that listening to "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" on the radio does. Talk about time machines! Its 1930 opening was attended by then-Governor, soon-to-be President Franklin Roosevelt (probably my favorite President, with apologies to Abe Lincoln, although I have to say I've just finished a biography on Ulysses Grant by Ron Chernow...which I highly recommend...that upped my admiration for that particular White House occupant appreciably...but again I digress...), and Eleanor, who cut the ribbon on the west side of the bridge (the wife of former Governor Al Smith...who lost his bid for the Presidency because of his Catholicism...cut the ribbon on the east side). It's probably wise to keep your attention focused on the road once you're on the bridge itself, but I've always been unable to keep from sneaking glances over at the glittering Hudson below, the train tracks snaking along beside it, the trees and foliage beyond (I used to take photographs at the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery on the east bank of the river, but you really can't see it from the bridge, even though you can clearly see the bridge from the cemetery). Reviewer Ruth H. of Milton mentions that caution is necessary if you take the exit off the bridge for Rt. 9 South, and I couldn't agree more. It's the only unpleasant aspect of the passage from Ulster to Dutchess County. If you take the exit at a time of day (or night) when traffic is relatively light (or your car has great acceleration), it's not especially dangerous. At other times, though...it's dangerous. Stress inducing, at the very least. Vehicles speeding south from the north will come bearing down on you with potentially disastrous results. She suggests continuing on to Market St., making a right, and following that route to a safer Rt. 9 exit. I've never gone that way, but I will the next time I find myself making a journey in the area. You can also go straight when you pass over the bridge, drive through the depressing urban blight of the City of Poughkeepsie (my apologies to the residents there, but that's how it struck me), and eventually enter the pastoral allure and spiritually restorative tranquility of Dutchess County's countryside-- i.e., my "Happy Place." Not just a bridge, for me...but memories. Good ones.