Even closer to NYC is Bear Mountain for a little relaxation and natural air.
Davies's favorite part of the swim is between the Newburgh-Beacon and Bear Mountain bridges on the Hudson Highlands.
At the height of the search for Dorner, more than 200 officers scoured Big Bear Mountain, cabin by cabin.
That was the day Israel was supposed to surrender, and the day his SUV was found abandoned on the Bear Mountain Bridge.
When his friend Billy Calloway got a road bike, he got one too, and the pair would set off across the George Washington Bridge and up to Bear Mountain, utterly clueless, a single water bottle between them, Dave dressed in surfer shorts and wrestling shoes.
As I arrived, seagulls were funnelling over the beach, stark white against the dark-forested slopes of Squilax (Black Bear) Mountain.
It covers a wide area around Los Angeles, with incidents reported from San Diego in the south to the mountain resort of Big Bear in the east.
But when the victim was 17 years old in 1983, the priest took the youngster to a mountain retreat near Big Bear Lake in California, and when they took a break by a stream, the priest "gave me a hug and kissed me as if I were a woman, " the victim wrote.
The ex-Navy reservist died in a gunfight at a mountain cabin near the Big Bear Lake ski resort, after a massive manhunt across southern California.
In turn, these massive U-shaped glacially formed valleys create a home for countless species of flora and fauna, including animals such as the much photographed mountain sheep and the elusive grizzly bear.
The park's icon has changed from Grizzly Peak (a man-made mountain in the shape of a Grizzly Bear, California's state animal) to the Carthay Circle Theater, the theater where "Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs" debuted in 1937.
But the main attraction at Clayoquot is the wilderness itself, and a slate of varied activities include horseback riding, river and ocean kayaking, whale watching, grizzly bear watching, hiking, mountain biking and world-class river, ocean, and lake fishing - some guests come primarily for the angling.
FORBES: Clayoquot Wilderness Resort, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada - Larry Olmsted The Great Life
With no boundaries between park and hotel, guests can expect mountain sheep, coyotes, even the odd bear to range over the hotel's stunningly picturesque grounds at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
The Eurasian brown bear has disappeared from much of Europe, but in this mountain range that separates Slovakia and Poland, you have some of the best odds of seeing the magnificent animal in the wild.
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