Also there is a popular state kayak put in and boat launch. Many people kayak around Middle Stockport Island from this point rather then come in from Coxscakie to avoid crossing the main channel of the river, that can be awful choppy and full of motorboat traffic.
Taken on Saturday June 4, 2011 at Hudson River Islands State Park.
This is taken, literally, only three miles North of Albany, in the middle of the Albany-Troy-Schenectady urban belt. It's remarkable this land was never developed, although historical pollution and steepness of valley here, may have been a large reason for this unbroken buffer of land.
Taken on Saturday May 7, 2011 at Kayak the Hudson.