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Mid-20th Century Guide to Bear Mountain - Perkins Point


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Mid-20th Century Guide to Bear Mountain - Perkins Point

 
 
The following excerpt about the history of Bear Mountain Park was written in New York, A Guide to the Empire State compiled in 1940.
    Early Guide to Bear Mountain and Perkins Point
    "At 2.6 m. is the entrance to the Bear Mountain Bridge (car with passengers, 50 cents; trailer, 35 cents; pedestrian 10 cents). The bridge, which was opened to traffic in November 1924, is 2,257 feet in length; the central span, with a clearance of 135 feet, is 1,632 feet long.

    "At 5.6 m., just west of the western approach to Bear Mountain Bridge, is the junction with US 9W . . . (see Tour 21A) and the eastern entrance to the Bear Mountain Section of the Palisades Interstate Park. This 1,000-acre park, named for Bear Mountain (1,314 alt.), which rises steeply above the Hudson, is one of the most popular recreational centers near New York City (facilities for roller skating - 35 cents including skates' bathing - lockers 35 cents weekdays, 50 cents Sun. and holidays; rowing - boats 25 cents an hour weekdays, 50 cents Sun. and holidays, $1 deposit; tennis - courts 50 cents an hour; baseball - diamond $1 an hour; tobogganing and skiing in winter). The Trailside Museum (open, free) informs visitors about plants and animals in their native setting; the ramparts of the Revolutionary Fort Clinton have been carefully restored.

    "US 6 continues westward through the park on Popolopen Drive. At 6.8 m. is the junction with Perkins Memorial Drive. Left on this road, which climbs gradually, to the parking place near the Summit of Bear Mountain, 2.3 m., where a large parking space and an observation tower have been built for the convenience of those who wish to study the magnificent panorama of the Hudson Valley. The drive winds down the south side of the mountain to a junction, 4.7 m., with Seven Lakes Drive."
Source: Excerpts from New York, A Guide to the Empire State Compiled by workers of the Writer's Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of New York, 1940 Albany

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