Stony Point Lighthouse

Wonderful park visit and storytelling event

A friend and I had planned to visit some other historical sites in the Hudson River Valley, but a bridge closure prevented us from going so we took Route 9 North up the river and visited the Stony Poi...

Unexpected history lesson

This was a pleasant surprise that didn't require a fee or a reservation.. We were actually looking for the battlefield and knew the lighthouse was nearby. There was a small revolutionary army camp a...

It's the view, not the lighthouse, which is the attraction

The lighthouse has a neat history (you can read about in my photos of the signs) but the lighthouse itself is not really an attraction that you can go into and enjoy. What the real pull here is the h...

Stony Point Battlefield: More here than meets the eye

On a roundtrip vacation of the Hudson River Valley, my family visited the Stony Point Battlefield and Lighthouse located on the westside of the Hudson River, around 46 miles North of NYC and 14 miles ...

A nice piece of land

A nice piece of land on the Hudson River. On special occasions, they have volunteers in Revolutionary War period costumes providing interesting details on that period. A lot of mosquitoes in the s...