{"id":21692,"date":"2025-09-30T11:35:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=21692"},"modified":"2026-01-25T15:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:07:25","slug":"hawks-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2025\/09\/hawks-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"540\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 960 \/ 540;\" width=\"960\" autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hawks-Nest-final.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Driving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/the-hawks-nest\">Hawks Nest<\/a>, a serpentine stretch of road built in to the cliffs high above the Delaware river, a little north of Port Jervis, NY (and Montague, NJ, <a href=\"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2019\/04\/its-a-little-ny-and-a-little-pa-meet-the-only-n-j-town-squeezed-between-2-other-states\/\">where I grew up<\/a>). It&#8217;s a popular scenic drive, with a few spots to stop and take in the view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There used to be a restaurant overhanging the cliffs that we went to a lot as kids, but it burned down in 2002. I remember sharing a dish of pistachio ice cream there with my grandpa &#x2665;&#xfe0f;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marvel fans may recognize Hawks Nest as the road <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/B_gnJk75Os0?si=m3J09jP7IVTX9QG_&amp;t=27\">where Dr. Strange wrecks his car<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving the Hawks Nest, a serpentine stretch of road built in to the cliffs high above the Delaware river, a little north of Port Jervis, NY (and Montague, NJ, where I grew up). It&#8217;s a popular scenic drive, with a few spots to stop and take in the view. There used to be a restaurant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[245,242,244,243],"class_list":["post-21692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dr-strange","tag-hawks-nest","tag-montague-nj","tag-port-jervis-ny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-5DS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21692"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22442,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692\/revisions\/22442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}