Copake

Welcome to Copake

Drive Times from Major Cities

• From Albany, NY: About 55 minutes
• From New York, NY: About 2 hours 30 minutes
• From Hudson, NY: About 30 minutes
• From Boston, MA: About 2 hours 40 minutes
• From Pittsfield, MA: About 50 minutes

Community Resources and Amenities

• Open Saturdays from 9 AM to 1 PM mid-May to mid-November.
• Operates at Roeliff Jansen Park on Route 22 in Hillsdale.
• Over 30 vendors plus live music, food demonstrations, kids' activities, and community food programs make this dynamic farmers' market a community hub.

• Serves the towns of Ancram, Copake, and Hillsdale with about 3,600 resident borrowers and more than 45,000 annual visits a year.
• Roeliff Jansen Community Library activities include book clubs, poetry groups, mah jongg, a prose writer’s group, a memoir writing group, and tutoring.
• Library events cover everything from senior strength and balance classes to kids' story time at the Copake Hillsdale Farmers Market.
• Known for the "big green chair," a 10-foot-tall, 8-feet-wide outdoor sculpture designed by renowned artist Leon Smith, who lived nearby in Ancramdale.

• Preserves and protects the history and cultural traditions of the towns of Ancram, Copake, Gallatin, Hillsdale, and Taghkanic.
• Programming focuses onongoing research, a speaker series, exhibits, oral history projects, and a multimedia archive.

• Based in Craryville, Taconic Hills Central School District serves students and families in Copake, Hillsdale, Philmont, and parts of Ancram, Austerlitz, Claverack, Gallatin, Ghent, Livingston, Northeast, and Taghkanic.
• The district consists of a PreK–6 elementary school and 7–12 junior/senior high school with a combined enrollment of about 1,400 students.

Health Care Resources

Columbia Memorial Health
71 Prospect Ave, Hudson, NY

 

• Provides services to more than 100,000 residents in Columbia, Greene and Dutchess counties.
• The region’s only comprehensive primary and specialty care health system.
• Anchored by Columbia Memorial Hospital in nearby Hudson with 192 beds.

Recreation and Culture

Taconic State Park

 

• Part of the Taconic Mountains, Taconic State Park shares a border with Massachusetts and Connecticut.
• Four seasons of recreational activities at the Copake Falls area of the park include swimming, hiking, biking, camping, cross-country skiing, and snowshoeing.
• Vistors can drive about 5 minutes to the Massachusetts state border to marvel at Bash Bish Falls, the highest waterfall in that state.
• The park includes the Copake Iron Works Historic Site where vistors can tour a museum and see 19th-century iron-making equipment.

Taconic Stage Company

 

• Based in the hamlet of Craryville, the Taconic Stage Company has performed in Copake Falls at the Lighthouse Restaurant and Marina and the Church of St. John in the Wilderness.
• The theater company specializes in small-cast musicals and comedies, including the smash hit "The Real (Desperate) Housewives of Columbia County Musical."

Town of Copake Parks and Recreation

 

• The Town of Copake maintains recreational facilities for area residents that include Copake Memorial Park, located just east of Copake Town Hall.
• Surrounding Copake Memorial Park are a children's playground, baseball fields, and a skate park.

 

Copake Country Club with its 18-hole championship golf course borders Copake Lake.