Opening Day for the Rip Van Winkle Bridge on June 2, 1935. Photo courtesy New York State Bridge Authority ArchivesAn aerial view, looking southeast, of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge passing over Rogers Island. Photo: courtesy NYS Bridge AuthorityThe view of Rogers Island and the Rip Van Winkle Bridge from Frederic Church’s studio at Olana, February 2025The Rip Van Winkle Bridge, by John Gould, with Olana and the Thomas Cole Site. Photo courtesy New York Bridge Authority and the family of artist John Gould. Click here to see John Gould’s beautiful painting of Olana, in full color with bald eagles flying by.Marchers carrying Frederic Church’s 1872 “Clouds Over Olana” in the Parade of Paintings” that opened the Skywalk, June 1, 2019A Thomas Cole lookalike walks across the Skywalk during the “Parade of Paintings,” June 1, 2019Kayaker’s view of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, looking northeast, July 2021A Black Lives Matter march proceeds across the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, June 20, 2020. Photo by Mark Prezorski
