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Hudson River — United States

Bear Mountain Bridge - Newburgh-Beacon Bridge

22.2 km
Distance
Newburgh-Beacon Bridge ↔ Bear Mountain Bridge
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Newburgh-Beacon Bridge ↔ Bear Mountain Bridge: 22.2 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 124 crossings by swimmers from 10 countries.

Distance is the shortest straight line between the start and finish coastal stretches, not the GPS track length: currents cause swimmers to cover much more distance.

Source: New York Open Water. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.