Manitou (Metro-North station)

Manitou

Hikers returning from the Bear Mountain area await a New York City-bound train at the Manitou station.

Location

1 Manitou Road,
Philipstown, New York

Coordinates

41°19′57″N 73°58′15″W / 41.3324°N 73.9709°WCoordinates: 41°19′57″N 73°58′15″W / 41.3324°N 73.9709°W

Line(s)

Empire Corridor

Hudson Line

Platforms

2 low-level side platforms

Tracks

Other information

Fare zone

Services

Preceding station		Metro-North Railroad	Following station
Peekskill toward Grand Central		Hudson Line	Garrison toward Poughkeepsie
	Former services
New York Central Railroad
Garrison toward Chicago		Water Level Route	Roa Hook toward New York City

Manitou /mænɪtoʊ/ is a limited service Metro-North Railroad station. The station is open part-time, serving one peak hour (weekday) train in each direction (one at 8:09 in the morning towards New York and 7:21 in the evening towards Poughkeepsie.), and six weekend trains each direction. It serves the residents of that hamlet in the southwestern corner of Philipstown, New York in Putnam County, New York, via the Hudson Line. It is 46 miles (74 km) from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is approximately one hour, 16 minutes.

Manitou is one of three stations - along with Breakneck Ridge on the Hudson Line and Appalachian Trail on the Harlem Line - that receives limited passenger service. Like these stations, it serves mainly hikers visiting nearby state parks in the Hudson Highlands. There is no elevated platform or facilities at the station, one of two on the line adjacent to a grade crossing, are limited to a small shelter with the current schedule posted inside. The station predates the merger of New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads.

The station closed on July 1, 1973 along with several other stations in Penn Central's Metropolitan Region. It reopened in 1983.

This station has two low-level side platforms, each long enough for just one door of one car to receive and discharge passengers.

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