Egremont is situated in a valley east of the Taconic Range.

To the east, Mount Everett, the highest point in town and the highest point in the southern Taconic Mountains, rises feet near the town's eastern border.

To the east, Mount Everett, part of the Taconic Range peaks in the town of Mount Washington and slopes eastward into the town.

* Martindale – A hamlet by the east town line, by the Taconic State Parkway.

Both are east of the Taconic State Parkway.

The Roeliff Jansen Kill Multiple Use Area is and is accessed from a pull-off on the east side of the Taconic State Parkway near the Roeliff Jansen Kill.

Dutchess County owns, manages and maintains the Wilcox Memorial Park on Route 199 — 3. 4 miles east of Taconic State Parkway.

The Smith family homestead is the oldest house in Putnam Valley, located just east of the Taconic Parkway on Bryant Pond Road.

* Roaring Brook Lake – A hamlet around Roaring Brook Lake, east of the Taconic State Parkway.

Bounded by Route 9A to the west, the Taconic State Parkway to the east, and split in the middle by the Sprain Brook Parkway, Hawthorne lies near the geographic center of Westchester County.

To the east or coastward side, these include, from north to south, the Green Mountains of Vermont ; the Taconic Mountains of Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut ; the Reading Prong ( which includes the New York and New Jersey Highlands, known variously as the Hudson Highlands, Schunemunk Mountain, and Ramapo Mountains, among other names and sections ); and South Mountain in Pennsylvania beyond Harrisburg.

The town lies between the Green Mountains to the east and the Taconic Range to the west.

Although geologically part of the Taconic Mountains, Mount Greylock is commonly associated with the abutting Berkshire Hills to the east.

Geographically, Mount Greylock is part of a by island-like range that runs north-south between the Hoosac Range to the east, the Green Mountains to the north, the Berkshires to both the south and east, and the Taconic Mountains to the west with which it is geologically associated ; all ranges are associated with the Appalachian mountain chain.

Set between the Taconic Range to the west and the Hoosac Range of the Berkshires to the east, Adams includes the summit of Mount Greylock, elevation 3, 491 feet ( 1, 064 m ) above sea level.

Geologically, the Berkshires are bordered on the west by the Taconic Mountains, the marble valleys of the Hoosic River and Housatonic River and, further south, by the Hudson Highlands ; to the east, they are bordered by the Metacomet Ridge geology.

To the east, the Taconic Mountains fall off abruptly, ending in the valleys of the Housatonic River, the upper Hoosic River, and the greater Valley of Vermont.

At Nine Partners Road, the Taconic is back on a northward heading as it slips east of the Stanford town line.

After another long bend east, the Taconic goes north again and crosses into Columbia County just past Roeliff Jansen Kill Multiple Use Area and the Jackson Corners Road ( CR 2 ) exit.

The next section of the Taconic, north to NY 55, nine miles ( 14. 4 km ) east of Poughkeepsie, opened in late 1939.

The portion of NY 199 east of its junction with the Taconic State Parkway was originally part of the Ulster and Delaware Turnpike, a toll road linking Bainbridge to Sailsbury, Connecticut.

The east – west section of the extension between the Taconic Parkway and Annsville was renamed the Bear Mountain State Parkway.

Mount Frissell is traversed by the Mount Frissell Trail which connects with the South Taconic Trail to the west and the Appalachian Trail to the east.

Then following the 1930s and the Great Depression the population grew again, due in part to the construction of the Taconic Parkway which ended in Milan at the time, and then the post World War II boom.

Prior to heightened security measures enacted post-September 11 motorists could take the road that leads towards NY 22 and then drive across the top of the Kensico Dam and eventually re-connect with the Taconic State Parkway.

During Father Rale's War, soldiers left Fort Richmond ( now Richmond ) in whaleboats until they reached Taconic Falls ( now Winslow ), then marched quietly to Norridgewock Village, arriving on August 23, 1724.

The Taconic Mountains begin in northwest Connecticut and northeast Dutchess County, New York and extend through western Berkshire County, Massachusetts and the adjacent counties in New York, then along the border of New York and Vermont to the town of Brandon, after which they lose prominence and dwindle into scattered hills and isolated peaks which continue north toward Burlington, Vermont.

North of the Massachusetts border, the profile of the Taconic Range is cut and eroded by the Hoosic River as it turns west and then south toward its confluence with the Hudson River, and by its tributary rivers in the vicinity of Bennington, Vermont.

The Taconic continues north through a minimally developed area of low hills, past another exit serving Pleasantville, and then across another town line into New Castle.

The initial reason for the Bear Mountain Parkway was to connect the Taconic State Parkway ( or then, the Bronx River Parkway Extension ) to the Bear Mountain Bridge.

Richmond has an arrangement to send its high school students to Pittsfield High School or Monument Mountain Regional High School or Taconic High School.

The town also shares its name with the Taghkanic or Taconic Mountains on the eastern part of the township.

Kensico Dam is visible in the distance as the parkway reaches its northern terminus at Kensico Circle, southern terminus of the Taconic State Parkway, also listed on the Register.

The term was coined by Minnesota State Geologist Newton Horace Winchell during his pioneering investigations of the Precambrian Biwabik Iron Formation of northeastern Minnesota owing to its superficial resemblance to iron-bearing rocks from the Taconic Mountains of New York, with which he was familiar.

The Nature Conservancy calls the Berkshire Taconic landscape, which includes part of the Taconic Range, one of its " Last Great Places.

North of Bennington, the range gradually rises to its highest prominence with peaks such as Mount Equinox, the high point of the Taconic Mountains, and Dorset Mountain, a New England 100 Highest list summit.

A narrow strip along the entire Western border of Massachusetts has been designated by the U. S. Forest Service for potential conservation as the " Taconic Mountains Forest Legacy Area " under its Forest Legacy Program.

Continuing its easterly slant, the Taconic starts leveling out in Dutchess County, the largest county segment of any of the four counties along the road, entering the town of East Fishkill.

A long curve back to the northwest again takes the Taconic to the first of its two interchanges with NY 82, at Arthursburg.

It bends from the northerly heading back to the northeast to cross into Ghent over the next three miles ( 5 km ), where NY 217 comes to its eastern terminus at the exit with the Taconic.

As a result, the Taconic has been the subject of much praise over the years not only for its vistas but for the way it harmonizes with the surrounding landscape.

In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, with sections of the road modified from its original design and the rest areas mostly gone, writers for The New York Times have variously described the Taconic as " a pleasure to use, evoking those bygone days when people went for a drive just for the fun of it " and " unquestionably among the most scenic roadways in the Northeast, winding along the Hudson Valley with a painter's eye for landscape and a gearhead's idea of fun.

In its early days, the Taconic State Parks Commission ( TSPC ) did not have enough money to hire a full engineering staff, with terrain that presented some major challenges.

Two separate agencies, the Taconic State Park Commission ( TSPC ) and Westchester County Parks Commission ( WCPC ), were its initial constructors, building different segments.

The TSPC inspected the proposed route and found it would be very expensive to acquire and build, and in 1943 Schermerhorn agreed that the Taconic should continue on its planned course northwards.

In 1979, with Westchester's parkways adequately upgraded, the EHPA dissolved itself and turned control of all its roads, including the Taconic, over to the Department of Public Works ' successor, the state Department of Transportation ( NYSDOT ).

The Taconic was designated a State Scenic Byway in 1992, and a multidisciplinary Corridor Management Plan was drafted and implemented seven years later to ensure that future changes to the road preserved and improved safety with minimal impact on its scenic and historic character.

The Sprain Brook and Taconic Parkways were built as completely separate highways, and at the time of building, the southern section of the Taconic kept its name, but few signs still show the name today ( it is usually signed as the northern part of the Bronx River Parkway nowadays ).