If you leave the Hudson, NY public boat launch area, which is were the lighthouse tours leave on the second Saturday from July - October, and go two blocks east, take a right at the light on one of the Route 9 variations, go about a mile and then go right again. This road circles up and around for three miles and comes back to the Rip Van Winkle Bridge. Halfway up the hill the first time a few years ago I saw in the rear view mirror the light. I stopped in the middle of the road, jumped out and took some pictures. There is really no parking there. Sometimes I pull into a driveway and get out and shoot. 200 mm, hand held with image stabilizer. One hopes if a cop comes he/she likes lighthouses!

Bob Taylor