Opus 40 - Saugerties Museum

Full Amenity List

• Wheelchair Accessible

Descriptions from Across the Web

• About one hundred miles from New York City, tucked in a pocket of the Catskills in the township of Saugerties, New York, lies one of the most extraordinary pieces of sculpture ever created by a single man. -- The work is an immense composition of finely fitted stone, rising in ramps and swirling ... more on MuseumStuff.com
• This sculpture park was intended to house the works of the designer, but the setting itself became the artist's masterwork. more on TripAdvisor
• The late Harvey Fite put 37 years into the making of this 6-acre outdoor sculpture, created in the rock bed of an abandoned bluestone quarry. The architectural creation is an assemblage of curving bluestone walkways, swirling terraces, and finely fitted ramps around pools, trees, and fountains. T... more on Fodor's
• Opus 40 is a large earth art installation in Saugerties, New York, created by sculptor and quarryman Harvey Fite (1903--1976). It comprises a sprawling series of dry-stone ramps, pedestals and platforms covering 6.5 acres (2.6 hectares) of a bluestone quarry. Fite, then a professor of sculpture a... more on En.wikipedia.org

Directions

From the NYS Thruway at Saugerties exit 20 get on Route 212 west towards Woodstock. From the light at the Hess gas station, go 1.6 miles to a fork in the road. Turn LEFT onto Fishcreek Road. Go 2.4 miles to a stop sign. Turn RIGHT onto Highwoods Road. Go

Miscellaneous

• Admission: $6
• Collections: In the early seventies Fite took time out from Opus 40 to build a museum to house his collection of quarryman's tools and artifacts -- a fascinating tour through the history of the area and the skills of its workingmen.

Other Web Resources

• www.opus40.org