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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
Left on US 9W to POINT LOOKOUT, 0.5 m., a parking place for observers on
the sheer 500-foot cliff of the Palisades (field glasses, 10¢). The black and silver expanse of the Hudson River, framed in the brown rock of the Palisades and the
green fields and forests of the New York shore, stretches north and south as far as
the eye can see. As the river broadens above Point Lookout, the shore line curves
in a tremendous sweep. Far south the needle points of New York's skyscrapers,
piercing through the closely woven texture of the huddled buildings, flash in the
sun. Along its lower industrial end the Hudson becomes truly a New Jersey river.
There the smooth current is broken by the swell of excursion boats, ferries, freighters, tugs, and garbage scows.
At 3.7 miles is the junction with Closter Dock Rd., now a hard-surfaced
highway, which was laid out soon after Frederick Closter came here in the
early seventeenth century under a grant from Holland. The FIELD
HEADQUARTERS of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission is a vine-covered stone and log building (L) at the junction, on the northeast corner (permission for use of campsites obtained here). The commission controls a series of parks, including this 13-mile strip along the Hudson River
in New Jersey and large mountain areas in the adjoining part of New
York. The first park commission was named jointly in 1900 by the Governors of the two States. Substantial gifts of property have been made by
J. P. Morgan, the Rockefellers, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, and other wealthy
persons.
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