Cold Spring
Heritage Village · Cold Spring, New York
A village of about two thousand on the east bank of the Hudson at the narrowest point of the HIGHLANDS, with a nineteenth-century main street running downhill to a bandstand on the river and WEST POINT directly opposite. ⚠ IT IS THE MOST WALKABLE DAY TRIP FROM NEW YORK CITY — Metro-North from Grand Central puts you at the bottom of Main Street in eighty minutes, and you need nothing else.
Main Street at Chestnut Street, Cold Spring, New York, 10516, United States
An open village — free, no gate. ⚠ METRO-NORTH FROM GRAND CENTRAL IS ABOUT EIGHTY MINUTES and the station is fifty metres from the river and two hundred from the shops — Cold Spring needs no car. ⚠ CHECK THE RETURN TRAIN TIMES; the Hudson Line thins out in the evening. Shops open late morning and close by early evening. The bandstand, the river front, the Chapel of Our Lady Restoration and the West Point Foundry Preserve are all FREE. ⚠ AVOID OCTOBER WEEKENDS — a village of two thousand receives autumn crowds it cannot absorb, and the trains back are full.