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A View of Our Beautiful Area From Overlook Mountain

This ground-level view is looking northeast towards the town and village of Saugerties, New York. Saugerties, from the Dutch 't Zaugerties ("the little sawmill"), is perhaps best known as the host of the 1994 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival at Winston Farm (a.k.a. "Mudstock"!). It is pronounced "SAW ger tees" (with a soft "g"), but you can recognize a family that has been here since Dutch colonial times (New Holland) by the way they continue to pronounce the "het" ('t) at the beginning of the name. Beyond Saugerties is the Hudson River; across it you can see Columbia (left) and Dutchess (right) Counties. Yes, it's spelled "Dutchess" and not "Duchess"; don't ask us why! Beyond these, on a clear day, you can just see into northwestern Connecticut and southwestern Massachusetts states.

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1. Overlook Mtn., 3140 feet (957 m)
2. Hudson River
3. Village of Saugerties
4. Columbia County
5. Dutchess County