Storm King Art Center

Storm King opened in 1960 and grew into about five hundred acres of meadow, hill and woodland used as a single setting for sculpture at a scale galleries cannot take. Many works were made for their locations: Maya Lin's Wavefield is eleven rows of earth waves shaped from a gravel pit; Richard Serra's Schunnemunk Fork runs four steel plates across a hillside so the ground reads differently as you walk it; Andy Goldsworthy's Storm King Wall snakes 700 metres through trees and into a pond. Calder, di Suvero, Noguchi and Nevelson are all here. Distances are long - there is a tram, and bicycles can be hired.

What you actually see

• Sculpture made for its exact site - not moved in from elsewhere.
• Maya Lin's Wavefield - earth waves in a former gravel pit.
• Goldsworthy's 700-metre wall - through trees and into water.
• Five hundred acres to cross - tram and bicycle hire on site.

When to go

May to November; closed for winter. Half a day.

Honest expectations

Tickets are timed and must be booked - it sells out on autumn weekends. The site is huge and involves serious walking; the tram does not reach everything. There is almost no shade or shelter. It closes entirely in winter.

Nearby

West Point is south; Beacon and Dia are across the river.