1. New Paltz
New Paltz, college town, and Gateway to the Gunks. First stop when you leave the Thruway at Exit 18. On the skyline straight ahead, the Mohonk tower.

2. Mohonk Mountain House
A castle in the sky. This is the back of the famous Mohonk Mountain House just to the West of New Paltz. The front towers grandly over a crystalline mountain lake.

3. Tillson
Taking the air on Springtown Road in Tillson, south of Rosendale.

4. Rosendale Cemetry
Rosendale Cemetry, on Elting Road just south of Rosendale. Avenues of majestic trees, and memorials to Rosendale's  once-prosperous townspeople.

5. Rosendale
Rosendale once made its money from digging up and burning cement and entertaining canal-barge-men at the town's 32 bars. Still grittily-Victorian, it's starting to spruce itself up to welcome visitors.

6. High Falls- Art for consumption
Not all the art produced by Shawangunk artists hangs on gallery walls. Here, The Egg's Nest restaurant in High Falls.

7. High Falls Winter dress-up
Once a year High Falls lights up a dark Winter night to welcome shoppers to its chic emporia.

8. Hurley, "New Town" in 1677
Slightly to one site of the Scenic Byway but not to be missed, Hurley, or "New Town" as it was called when founded just 11 years after the Great Fire of London. Both sides of the street are lined with stone houses.

9. Mohonk from the West
Mohonk Mountain House and the Mohonk tower seen looking East from 209.

10. The Shawangunks from 209
Dark view of the Shawangunks from 209 looking East towards New Paltz.