Oakdale Lake Picnic

Friends of Hudson Youth and Friends of Oakdale Lake will throw the first annual Oakdale Lake Picnic. This free summer party, at Oakdale Lake, is open to all of Hudson and will usher in a new era of community use and involvement at Oakdale. There will be free hot dogs with pickles made by Oakdale campers and Hawthorne Valley sauerkraut; Stewart’s ice cream; and a DJ. The event features the first ever viewing of a new exhibit, co-created by the Hudson Area Library, Friends of Hudson Youth and Friends of Oakdale Lake. The exhibit, titled “Oakdale Past & Future,” includes black and white photographs of Oakdale Lake in its heyday, maps and early Oakdale Lake plans. An expanded exhibit will be remounted by the Hudson Area Library in January 2019. Representatives from Friends of Hudson Youth and Friends of Oakdale Lake, as well as from the Hudson Valley Initiative, a program of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation, and Planning, will be on hand to talk about plans for improvement of Oakdale Lake and organizational goals and results. For more information email Info@hudsonyouth.org or call 518.828.1792 x101. The Oakdale Picnic is made possible by the generous support of the City of Hudson, Metzwood Insurance, the Friends of Hudson Youth, and the Friends of Oakdale Lake.