General Information
Tours are offered on weekdays from May
1 – October 31.
Reservations should be made as early as
possible. A reservation is not complete until the entire fee is
received and processed.
Tours are conducted "drizzle or shine."
In cases of severe weather, tours will be cancelled (the
determination will be made by 8:30 on the morning of the tour).
Groups are encouraged to select a rain date with their
reservation.
A group must provide the bus and
driver. Only one bus can be accommodated per tour.
The sample itinerary that follows
can be easily modified to suit a group’s needs,
interests, or abilities.
Fees
For "jitney"-type buses (up to approx.
20 passengers): $100.00
For school-bus type buses (up to
approx. 40 passengers): $150.00
For tour-bus type buses (up to approx.
50 passengers): $200.00
Notes: Smaller buses are preferred due
to the narrow roads in the park. Larger, tour-bus type buses
need to follow an altered route. Reservation fees will
be refunded only due to weather or other conditions and when no
rain date can be established within the calendar year.
Sample Itinerary
11:00
am
Bus arrives at
Fort
Lee Historic Park. Disembark.
Restrooms.
11:15
am
Group assembles in
the Historic
Park Visitor Center auditorium to meet the tour guide. Viewing of
A New Deal for the Palisades, a history of the
creation of the park and the park’s heyday of the 1930s and
1940s.
11:45
am
Guided stroll to George
Washington Bridge overlook. Re-embark.
12:15
pm
Travel
up Palisades Interstate Parkway, with brief on-board stops at
Rockefeller and Alpine Lookouts.
12:30
pm
Disembark. Lunch at
State
Line Lookout’s Lookout Inn refreshment
stand and gift shop (participants may bring lunch, or purchase).
From 1
pm on, the guide
will be available to answer questions at Point Lookout, the
highest point on the Palisades Cliffs (elevation
532 feet).
1:15
pm
Re-embark. Travel on
Route 9W to
Park Headquarters where there will be
a brief on-board stop. (Larger buses will then travel on Route
9W south to
Ross
Dock for final stop
of the day.)
1:30
pm
Travel to the
Alpine Picnic Area
on the Hudson riverfront. Disembark. Tour of the historic
Kearney House (c. 1760).
2:00
pm
Re-embark. Tour ends.