Capital District

• Albany County - The state's capital city and its suburbs in the east; still rural in its west
• Montgomery County
• Rensselaer County - Little suburban sprawl and much rural land and small towns in this direction as you head from Troy and Rensselaer to the Berkshires and Vermont
• Saratoga County - Development in the Albany area has made this the fastest-growing county in the state; still, the northern regions remain largely untouched, especially within the Adirondack Park
• Schenectady County - A city with a few suburbs and some country towns
• Schoharie County — A rural county that features natural attactions, especially Howe Caverns
• Washington County - Feels like a little piece of neighboring Vermont that is still part of New York

Doug Kerr

• - The state capital, with many attendant sights and attractions.
• - A grand old dowager of a resort town on the edge of the Adirondacks, this city comes alive when the thundering hooves of three-year-old thoroughbreds hit the track every August for a month of racing culminating in the Travers Stakes
• - The stamp of General Electric, which still operates its landmark research facility near downtown, remains on the Capital District's second city, also home to Union College.
• — A rejuvenated former spa town made semi-famous by its connection to the 'Fabulous Beekman Boys'.
• - The combination of a well-preserved and restored downtown and tech startups feeding off of nearby Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has led to the nickname "Silicon Valley of the 19th century."

By air

• Albany International Airport

  phone: +1 518 242-2200
  address: 737 Albany Shaker Road, Albany
  An international airport due to a handful of flights from Canada. Several expansion projects since 1995 have transformed this formerly spartan little airport into a very attractive port of departure/arrival. Airlines that operate are American, Delta, Southwest, United, Air Canada, and Cape Air.

• Stewart International Airport

  phone: +1 845 564-2100
  address: 1180 First St, New Windsor

By train

• AmtrakStations in Rensselaer and Schenectady. Trains serving the stations include the Maple Leaf (New York-Toronto), the Adirondack (New York-Montreal), Empire Service (New York-Niagara Falls), the Ethan Allen Express (Rutland-New York), and the Lake Shore Limited (Chicago-Buffalo-New York/Boston).

By bus

• GreyhoundStops in most of the major cities as well as some small towns.

• MegabusConnects Rensselaer and Saratoga Springs with New York City.

By car

Bridges

UpstateNYer

• Thacher State ParkA nearly 2,000-acre park about a 25 minute drive southwest of Albany. It's on the Helderberg Escarpment (an escarpment is a cliff or steep slope, and the Helderbergs are a group of mountains and hills west of Albany) and has some lovely trails, an Olympic-sized pool, playgrounds, lots of areas for picnics (including reservable outdoor pavilions) and great views of Albany and the Hudson-Mohawk valleys.

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