Cost of Admission: FREE

This is an in-person event. Space is limited and registration is required.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT

Join landscape architect Jamie Purinton and our own horticultural staff for a free tour as part of the Cultural Landscape Foundation’s “What’s Out There Weekend Upper Hudson Valley” event!

The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) announces What’s Out There Weekend Upper Hudson Valley June 6-7, 2026, featuring more than twenty free, expert-led tours of parks, gardens, and open spaces in New York State’s Upper Hudson Valley. These tours enable people to discover the design history of places they may pass every day but don’t necessarily know about. Expert guides provide rich stories, personal anecdotes, and keen observations about each site, landscape architecture, city shaping, and garden design (all tours are free, but attendance is limited and registration is required).

In addition to the tours, TCLF will produce a printed What’s Out There Upper Hudson Valley guidebook that includes all of the tour sites (available for purchase and free as a downloadable PDF), and a more expansive and ever-growing digital What’s Out There Mid- and Upper Hudson Valley (which TCLF maintains in perpetuity). The digital Guide includes an illustrated history of the region’s cultural landscape heritage, with 85 individual site entries, and biographies of more than 65 designers who collectively shaped the landscapes that people in Mid- and Upper Hudson move through every day.  

Research gathered for the tours will have a long-lasting legacy, becoming part of TCLF’s permanent What’s Out There database of more than 2,800 sites across North America, 1,400 designer profiles, and 14,000 images. The GPS-enabled database is a go-to resource for everyone from schoolchildren to scholars seeking trustworthy online information.