Built in 1915, this comfortable park lodge has accommodations in the original stone-and-timber Adirondack-style inn (overlooking Hessian Lake at the base of Bear Mountain), in the more modern Overlook Lodge, and in four separate large stone cottages each with six guestrooms.
Bear Mountain Inn
Hudson Valley
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