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Erica Higgs and her family, on the other hand, are veteran campers. The more remote the better, says Higgs, of Poughkeepsie, who does tent camping with her 5-year-old daughter, husband, and dog, Noodle Bean. The attraction to us is being away from people.
Her personal favorites are The Kenneth L Wilson Campground in Mount Tremper, which offers 76 tent and trailer sites or Cherry Plain State Park in Petersburg which has just 10 lakeside camp sites.
Camping is hot thanks to pandemic
After initially bracing for an economic disaster as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic campgrounds were closed for much of the spring many New York campgrounds and RV resort operators ended up having a banner year in 2020 as people went camping in record numbers, according to the Campground Owners of New York (CONY).
Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey, has set his new HBO series in America. The Gilded Age, a 10-episode historical drama, takes place during the late 19th century. Filming took place in the Sleepy Hollow area in November.
According to an HBO release, the series is set in 1882 during a period of immense economic change; huge fortunes were made in the era coined The Gilded Age.
Many of those fortunes were used to build lavish estates in the Hudson Valley, including today s Sleepy Hollow Country Club which began life in 1893 as a 75-room mansion for a Vanderbilt and the ultimate Gilded Age spread, Kykuit, the estate of John D. Rockefeller.