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Calling all hikers! Pack your backpack and get ready for outdoor adventure. Discover a multitude of trails with spectacular and panoramic views of the Adirondack Mountains and the Hudson Valley when you trek across the John Boyd Thatcher Park. It’s located minutes outside of Albany and is a picture perfect park for nature photographers too!

Take a seat at the Albany Civic Theater. Enjoy live theatrical performances at an award-winning Capital District theater presenting plays from renowned playwrights, such as Neil Simon. The all-volunteer community theater showcases dramatic and musical arts billed for standing ovations. Got your season tickets?

Play around at the Capital Repertory Theatre. Playwrights from Neil Simon to George Bernard Shaw have had their works produced on stage for an evening of dramatic arts entertainment. The 287-seat theater houses the city's only resident company that performs new theater works as well as world-renowned classics.

Escape with someone special on a romantic hot-air balloon ride. Adirondack Balloon Flights float over breathtaking vistas of the Adirondacks, Lake George, Saratoga Springs Region of New York and the Green Mountains of Vermont. Soar with a 30-year-old company that goes to great heights to make sure couples enjoy the date of a lifetime.