Tours + Tickets

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.

The Olana Electric Vehicle tour is the ultimate Olana experience. This guided driving tour, along 5 miles of Frederic Church’s designed carriage roads, provides the most comprehensive exploration of Olana as a 250-acre masterwork of American landscape design. Experience river and mountain views, journey around the lake, and enjoy sweeping vistas of the Church’s designed farm and park. End your journey along the original historic approach road, taking in the exterior architecture of the Historic House just as guests of Frederic Church once did. Limit 5 passengers per vehicle.

This 45-minute guided tour provides an introduction to Frederic Church’s home at Olana. Approach and enter the historic 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.

The complete Olana touring experience in one package! This two-hour combination tour begins with a 60-minute guided walk through Frederic Church’s artist-designed landscape, followed by a complete tour of the rich historic interiors of the Main House and a viewing of our summer exhibition "Terraforming: Olana’s Historic Photography Collection Unearthed." This tour involves uneven terrain and several flights of stairs, and requires the ability to walk and stand for a two-hour period.

Enhance your experience at Olana with a guided exploration of this season’s special exhibition, Terraforming: Olana’s Historic Photography Collection Unearthed, along with the private bedrooms spaces in the second floor of the Main House. This remarkable exhibition focuses on Olana’s never-before-seen trove of nearly 19th-century photographs, collected by the artist Frederic Church between 1850 and 1900. Guest curator David Hartt selected a subset of these photographs to reflect on the ways in which human culture and activity shape the land. Terraforming explores what this global photographic collection tells us about Church’s painting practice, travels, and ways of knowing and collecting the world. This tour requires several flights of stairs and is not-ADA accessible.

Discover the treasures of Olana’s Main House interior at your own pace. This self-guided tour allows visitors full access to all the public rooms on the first and second floors of the Main House. A knowledgeable interpreter will be available in each room. Your timed ticket includes a guided walk to the Main House followed by self-guided exploration of the interior. Start time is listed on your ticket. Last ticket entry is 3:45pm. Olana’s Historic House closes promptly at 4:30pm.