Seeing and Doing: Outdoors

Swimming

Knickerbocker Lake
Route 9, outside Village of Valatie

Lake Taghkanic State Park
Taconic State Parkway or Route 82, Taghkanic
518-851-3631
http://www.nysparks.com/parks
West Beach open weekends from May 23 - June 28, Opening daily June 29 - Labor Day.  East Beach closed for 2009.

Taconic State Park
Route 344, off Route 22, Copake Falls
518-325-3993
http://www.nysparks.com/parks