In the Dutchess County Spotlight

A new National Park Service hybrid bus provides free shuttle service daily from the Poughkeepsie train station to Historic Hyde Park, so visitors without cars can tour all four NPS sites. The Roosevelt Ride meets Metro-North trains arriving from New York City and delivers passengers to the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt's Val-Kill, and the Vanderbilt Mansion, open every day from 9am to 5pm. Guided tours by National Park Rangers are offered all day. Top Cottage, FDR's retreat, offers three programs every day at 11:10am, 1:10pm, and 3:10pm. www.NPS.gov/hofr

You can also visit the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, one of thirteen presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. View their new photography exhibition, "The Roosevelts: Public Figures, Private Lives"  For information visit www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu

The Roosevelt Ride rolls from now through the end of October. Call the Wallace Visitor Center at 845-229-5320 for tour and shuttle reservations. Download a pdf of the rack card with daily New York City rail link times in our brochure rack www.dutchesstourism.com