From Long Pond to Greenwood Lake
The water outside is not a natural lake, and it has been called three things. How it got its shape, its name, and a border down the middle of it.
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Lake Notes
Lake Notes.
How we’d spend a weekend here, where we’d send you to eat, and the walks we love. Written by the family who owns the home.
Browse by subject: Weekends · Trails & Outdoors · Seasons · On the Water
Living Lightly on the Lake
There is no water main and no sewer out here. That is the whole reason the place feels the way it does, and why it asks three things of you.
ReadThe Story of This House
We wanted a lake we could reach after work on a Friday. That rules out far more places than you would think.
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Fishing Greenwood Lake: License and Access
Nineteen hundred acres that fish like a much smaller lake. One license covers both states, and getting a boat on the water is the hard part.
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How Far Is Greenwood Lake from New York City?
About an hour from the George Washington Bridge. That number is the entire proposition, and the hour itself is worth knowing about.
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A Spring Weekend on Greenwood Lake
Spring here is a trade. You get the waterfalls at full volume and a ridge to yourself, and you give up half the valley.
ReadA Summer Weekend on Greenwood Lake
Summer is the easy answer here. The only skill is in the hours, and almost everyone gets them wrong.
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A Winter Weekend on Greenwood Lake
Greenwood Lake is a summer town. Winter is the better trip, and almost nobody takes it.
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Planning a Group Weekend at the Lake
The difference between a great group weekend and an exhausting one is about twenty minutes of planning that almost nobody does.
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A Perfect Autumn Weekend on Greenwood Lake
If you are only coming here once, come in October. Nobody can promise you the color, and here is how to load the dice.
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Where We’d Send You to Eat
The lakeshore is casual, and it is taverns. That is usually exactly what you want. When it is not, drive twenty minutes north.
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Five Walks Within Twenty Minutes
Within twenty minutes of the door there is more good walking than most people manage in a year. Parking is the constraint, not the walking.
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Opening 2027
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The house is being rebuilt and opens in 2027. Join the list and you’ll hear the day dates open — before it goes anywhere else, and always without booking-site fees.
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