Stephan Wilkinson wrote:
If StangStung means you're a Mustang driver, several of the great driving roads in the country are along your route, on the WEST side of the Hudson: Route 218 from Cornwall to West Point (the USMA), which is the Old Storm King Highway. Route 9W also between Cornwall and West Point. The Palisades Parkway from Bear Mountain to the George Washington Bridge. And a variety of wonderful, meandering roads within Bear Mountain State Park, such as Seven Lakes Drive. 218 and 9W are favorite motorcycling roads during the summer. As a volunteer ambulance driver, we used to start picking up the bodies in May and it was nonstop through October, every nice weekend.
I used to be the Editor of Car and Driver, and I've tested a variety of exotic cars on all those roads.
PM me if you need any other advice on that specific area. We live about five miles north of West Point, in Cornwall-on-Hudson. I also know ORA well, for all its faults.
Checking on Beekman Arms. I believe it was even mentioned in a previous version of "1000 places to go before you die."
As to StangStung, why yes, I'm a Mustang driver. Er, I was...and I will be again. Our first family car, the one my parents brought me home from the hospital in when I was born, was a 1965 Mustang. Then that same car, after resto, was my first car in high school. Now it's currently undergoing its' second restoration in my garage. I'm only about six weeks and a metric F*ton of money away from having it completed. So maybe this year...maybe next....But that's a story for another time.
I've already reached out the WP folks for a tour. Turns out I'm too early. They won't have August dates until April. But that's definitely on the list.
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