This is the Catskill Post Office. It's a big old building, built before Stamps.com and Amazon and…read moreFedEx, and it looks and feels important. If you're a young'un, and you were born after Stamps.com and Amazon and FedEx, a post office is where you used to have to go to send and receive packages, which you can still do today! Amazing, isn't it? You can also buy stamps, get money orders, apply for a passport, keep a PO box, send in safe and secure mail-in ballots to exercise your right to participate in a free and fair democracy, and more. Personally, I sent a box of old baby clothes to a cousin, and the folks behind the counter were efficient and helpful, and a credit to the fine organization that is the USPS. (No thanks to Postmaster General DeJoy, who we will hopefully see gone shortly.)

Awesome post office everyone there is friendly and very helpful always with a smile best post…read moreoffice around !

Most the time everything works out. But as of yesterday, Multiple times they've not delivered…read morepackages I've been waiting for on the day they're out for delivery, then they mark them as they tried but the front door wasn't accessable which is BS. For example, yesterday 7-7-25. Things are needed on certain days which is why they are ordered and when they're not delivered because staff shortage or whatever the reason may be, it screws stuff up for people.

It depends who is on the counter. The older (real employees)…read moreare great. The newer ones are untrained and very slow, they take the job just to goof off and get paid for lousy work, as it is a govt. job. The P.O. itself is going bankrupt and the flood of CHINESE counterfeits does not help the situation.

I helped a friend close out his mailbox at a small post office in a nearby town. The friend had $39…read moreon account & I was given a money order & it was recommended that I bring it to the Great Barrington PO to cash. Although I had my friend's driver's license & necessary paperwork & explained that the friend was in my car outside & used a walker, worker refused to cash money order unless my friend came in & signed in person, which would Have required negotiating many steps. I am a senior woman who has never before been treated with suspicion (the worker asked another worker to confer in back while I waited). I was not at all demanding, will NEVER return & believe that employees should learn to treat the public with more respect.

5.0 star rating Reviewer: Drone Shot Media…read more Our drone captured the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse--an 1874 Second Empire red-brick beacon on a granite caisson--bathed in golden-hour light above the Hudson's gentle ripples. Accessible only by boat, the guided tour shares tales of its original fog bell and offers unbeatable aerial angles. Pro tip: book early with Hudson Ferry Company for prime late-day shoots.

What a surprise to track down this lighthouse on its own island in the middle of the Hudson…read more Of course it's a home too. But your imagination runs wild when you think what the keeper has to put up with. Across from a giant grain silo on the bank.

This house was where British General John Burgoyne was hosted as a POW after his loss at Saratoga…read morein October 1777. This house is an interesting landmark for it's historical value. It is not open to the public.

"The moon is big and yellow And the stars are all a' glow…read moreFrom the bridge, I see reflections In the waters far below" (Dolly Parton) The Upper Sheffield Covered Bridge was built in 1999 as close to a stick-by-stick replacement (as close as modern engineering standards would allow) of the original 1832 bridge that was destroyed in a fire in 1994. Some materials salvaged from the original bridge were used for continuity. It's a nice example of "One Span Town Lattice Truss" open construction with a wood plank floor and wood siding painted grey. No vehicles are permitted on the 93-foot-long bridge that spans the Housatonic River. I read that the original 1832 bridge was the oldest covered bridge in Massachusetts and one of the oldest Town lattice truss bridges in the U. S. There's an information kiosk with vital information about the history and restoration of the bridge. There's a parking lot and a little park where you can access the bridge, and a hiking trail at the other end of the bridge, It's a very peaceful place to stop, take a stroll, enjoy the construction of the bridge and a nice water view at the park.

Cool little place to stop - over the Housatonic river in Sheffield. There is a small dirt parking…read morelot and a wide path for walking.