Boathouse Info

COMMUNITY BOATHOUSE TRAFFIC FLOW AND PARKING PLAN

Directions:

  • Take Main Street (City of Poughkeepsie) to North Water Street (River Station Restaurant)
    Turn right onto North Water St. Follow all the way to gate at end of road. Follow road on Vassar waterfront property to parking lot at south end.

Traffic Flow:

  • Speed limit on the site is twenty-five miles per hour (25mph)

  • Vehicles shall drive only on designated roadways.

  • Driving on any grass, unimproved, or unpaved area is prohibited.

  • Parking, Stopping and/or standing are prohibited on any part of the Boathouse Access road between the bottom of the access road hill and the north edge of the HRRA Training Building.

  • All student/athlete/rower drop offs shall be at the southwest corner of the HRRA Boathouse.

  • All pickups shall be at the northeast comer of the gravel parking area.

  • All portions of the Boathouse Plaza and the walkway between the Boathouse and Training Building are off limits to unauthorized vehicles.

Parking:

  • All vehicles shall park in designated parking areas only.

  • All parking spaces at the rear of the HRRA Boathouse Building are designated as “Coach Only” parking.

  • The paved and gravel parking area immediately south of the HRRA Boathouse is designated as visitor/student/athlete/rower/parent parking.

  • Parking on any grass, unimproved, or unpaved area is prohibited unless under the direction of parking attendants for races.

  • Parking on any portion of the Vassar Boathouse property is prohibited.

  • Vehicles parked in unauthorized areas are subject to being towed.

BOATHOUSE OVERVIEW
The Hudson River Rowing Association spearheaded and coordinated the construction and fundraising required to build the Hudson River Rowing Boathouse and owns and operates the facility for the benefit of the entire rowing community. The Community Boathouse serve two purposes – to store over a hundred rowing shells and support equipment for nine Hudson Valley rowing clubs and to provide a rowing center to train 600 athletes each year.

Storage of shells is provided through six storage bays that are 85 feet long and 25 feet wide. Each bay has modular Fred Hill boat racks suited to the needs of each tenant. These racks accommodate eight, 60 foot shells or a combination of fours, eights and small shells that can include up to 32 shells per wall. The racks have sliding arms to facilitate removal of the shells from the stack and rowers will use boat lifts to access the high racks. Each bay has vertical oar storage, workbench, electricity and lighting, water faucet, two standard doors and a lift type garage door.

A heated, two story facility was designed for training teams and support activities. The building has rest rooms with toilets, sinks, showers and lockers as well as a main lobby with water fountains, bulletin boards and eventually a trophy case. Through the lobby rowers access the “tank” room, which has an eight station, indoor sweep rowing tank that can also be modified for sculling. This unique training tool is usually available only to college programs and a handful of community rowing clubs throughout the country and will provide a training edge to our local coaches that is unprecedented for most scholastic and community rowing teams.

The training facility also contains a coach’s room for meetings and planning as well as a second story community room for exercising, meetings, fundraisers and social gatherings. A beautiful Hudson River view and a second story, covered porch is accessible through three french doors in the Community Room. The porch provides a sheltered patio off the lobby as well as a perfect view of the plaza garden and docks.

Our 180 foot sullivan dock has two 25’ ramps leading to a landing pad and a landing platform that can launch 3 eights at a time.

Our paved and gravel parking lotsl park six or more shell trailers, 140 cars and provide bus access. The entire facility is well lit and contains an alarm system for fire and theft. The training facility contains a sprinkler system as well.

Our boathouse may be reached through multiple exits off route 9 or the foot of Main Street in the City of Poughkeepsie and we are only a mile from the Poughkeepsie Train Station and Metro North. There are two grassy areas with picnic tables and benches and the Boathouse Row Walking Trail, which welcome spectators and community members to enjoy the facility, the Hudson and the sport of rowing.