OmniathlonOWS
Hudson River — United States

Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge - Rip Van Winkle Bridge

28.4 km
Distance
Rip Van Winkle Bridge ↔ Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Rip Van Winkle Bridge ↔ Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge: 28.4 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 98 crossings by swimmers from 11 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.