"This sight is beyond a dream" (graffiti atop the tower)
"It's wobbly and narrow but you just have to look up and go steady"
Arrive before 9am on weekends (parking fills fast)
Climb the 60-foot Mount Beacon Fire Tower for jaw-dropping 360-degree views of the Hudson Valley, Catskills, and on clear days, the distant Manhattan skyline. The trail winds past ruins of a 1920s casino and the old incline railway that once carried guests uphill.
They recommend it:
"This sight is beyond a dream" (graffiti atop the tower)
"It's wobbly and narrow but you just have to look up and go steady"
Arrive before 9am on weekends (parking fills fast)
Climb the 60-foot Mount Beacon Fire Tower for jaw-dropping 360-degree views of the Hudson Valley, Catskills, and on clear days, the distant Manhattan skyline. The trail winds past ruins of a 1920s casino and the old incline railway that once carried guests uphill.
They recommend it:
What are you into?
- Historic fire tower views
- Moderate rock scramble
- Abandoned railway ruins
- 360-degree Hudson Valley vistas
- Beacon