Storm King Art Center
Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
🥾 Hike · New Windsor
4 hours · $$$ · Reservation required
- 🚇About 85 min by subway or carFrom Midtown · Getting there: About 75 minutes by car, free parking; timed tickets must be bought online
- 🍼Stroller-friendlyFlat surfaces — bring the stroller
- 🌳Little shadeGreat on sunny days · Good on cool days
- ⏱️Typical visit: 4 hoursBest seasons: Spring · Summer · Fall
More than a hundred giant sculptures scattered across a 500-acre valley, which to a kid is simply an enormous grassy playground: run around Calder's red steel, roll down Maya Lin's wave field, and the grown-ups get to see art along the way.
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