The Hudson River School Art Trail takes you to the sites that inspired America’s first great landscape painters, enabling you to walk in the footsteps of Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Asher B. Durand, Jasper Cropsey, Sanford Gifford and other pioneering American artists, and to see the landscapes that launched the Hudson River School of art.

On this website you will see some of the magnificent paintings these artists created, compared with photographs of the same views today. You can also download a map and directions to guide you to the actual views, which are all within 15 miles of the 19th-century homes of Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, two of the Hudson Valley's most significant historic sites, which together form the anchor of the Trail. Enjoy your journey.

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The Hudson River School Art Trail is a project of the Thomas Cole Historic Site presented in partnership with Olana New York State Historic Site and The Olana Partnership, and with the National Park Service Rivers & Trails program, with assistance from the Greene County Tourism Promotion Department. The Trail project is funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Arts & Business Council of New York, and the New York State Council on the Arts.