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PLEASE NOTE: Click to learn more about planning your visit. Tours of the historic landscape are available below. Park access is free and open daily from 8:30 AM - sunset.

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Please call (518) 751-0344 or e-mail us at tickets@olana.org. We will return your message promptly.

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The Artist-Designed Landscape: 60-minute tour

This guided, one mile-long walking tour provides an introduction to Olana’s naturalistic, designed landscape and to Frederic Church’s work as an artist, landscape designer, and environmental visionary. Remarkably intact, this National Historic Landmark is a 250-acre composition integrating architectural and landscape features, including a working farm, man-made lake, replanted native woodlands, and more than five miles of carriage roads. Experience Church’s living landscape masterwork against a backdrop of sublime and far-reaching views of the Hudson Valley. This fully-exterior tour covers approximately one mile over unpaved roads, and is not ADA accessible.
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The Artist’s House: First Floor

This 45-minute guided tour provides an introduction to Frederic Church’s home at Olana. Approach and enter the Main House as guests of the Church family did, experiencing sweeping views of the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains. Explore the art-filled, lavishly decorated public rooms of the first floor, including Church’s painting studio and learn about the work and life of America’s preeminent landscape artist. This tour is fully ADA accessible. For a complete Olana experience, pair this tour with a guided walking or electric vehicle tour of the artist-designed landscape at Olana. Be sure to leave at least 30 minutes in between tours.
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The Artist’s House: Second Floor and Servants’ Stories (April)

Enhance your experience at Olana with this 30-minute guided tour, offering access to the private spaces of Olana’s Main House. Enter through the service entrance and ascend the back staircase to learn more about the Churches’ domestic staff and the operation of the household. Then explore the Church family’s private quarters from the perspective of family members and intimate guests. This tour will be on offer during the month of April. The tour requires multiple flights of stairs and is not ADA accessible, and is best experienced in combination with "The Artist’s House: First Floor" tour.
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Chasing Icebergs: Art and a Disappearing Landscape

*Through March 26* This 30-minute guided exhibition tour invites you to the second-floor galleries of the Artist’s House to experience Olana’s first winter exhibition, "Chasing Icebergs: Art and a Disappearing Landscape." In the summer of 1859, Frederic Church set sail for the waters of Newfoundland and Labrador, hoping to capture the challenging light, color, and wondrous forms of Arctic ice. This voyage was the first of its kind for an American artist, and Church’s artistic interest in the Arctic North would continue in his work for decades. "Chasing Icebergs" brings many of Church’s iceberg works to Olana’s galleries for the very first time, and pairs these with paintings, photographs, and books that Church collected on the subject of Arctic ice. The exhibition includes work by contemporary artists that speak to the political, social, and environmental impact of these landscapes in both the 19th century and our current moment. Admission to ‘Chasing Icebergs’ requires a paid ticket. This tour requires several flights of stairs and is not-ADA accessible.
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The Artist Designed Landscape: 30 Minute Walking Tour

This ¼ mile-long walking tour focuses on the integration of landscape and architecture in the siting and design of Olana’s Main House. The route follows the historic carriage road entrance from the site of Frederic Church’s painting studio, past the Mingled Flower Garden, to culminate in the dramatic planned approach road with panoramic views of the Hudson River Valley and Catskill Mountains.
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Olana State Historic Site5720 State Route 9G, Hudson, NY 12534
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