Visiting West Point
Access to Post: West Point regulations for accessing post have changed. Please read the full details carefully to learn more about identification requirements and bus tours. WPAOG has coordinated with the Visitor Control Center for alumni and their guests to have a background check done before arriving. (See link below.) Please direct questions to the Visitor Control Center 845.938.0390 or 845.938.0392.
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Grad Insider Tour Available
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Renting the Great Hall
The Great Hall can be used for wedding receptions, graduation parties, Class reunions, military promotion or retirement ceremonies, and more. To learn more about renting the Hall, please visit https://www.westpointaog.org/herberthallrental or contact us at Great-Hall@wpaog.org.
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Directions
West Point Association of Graduates (WPAOG )
West Point Association of Graduates, USMA
Herbert Hall
698 Mills Road
West Point, NY 10996
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Using Your GPS:
Coordinates are:
41.3843N 73.9620W
From Manhattan
Take the George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River. Take the Palisades Parkway north to the Bear Mountain rotary. Exit the rotary at Rt. 9W North. Follow Rt. 9W to the first West Point exit. Continue straight after exiting, and through Highland Falls To Thayer Gate. After going through Thayer Gate, go to the first stop sign and make a left up Mills road. WPAOG is two blocks up the hill on the right in the beautiful and impressive Herbert Alumni Center.
From Poughkeepsie
Take the Mid-Hudson Bridge west to Rt. 9W South. Follow Rt. 9W South through Highland, Marlboro, Newburgh, New Windsor, and Cornwall, and over Storm King Mountain. Exit Rt. 9W at the second West Point exit (the second Rt. 218 exit, says“Highland Falls”; you’ll exit to the right, under an overpass). Follow the ramp over the overpass and take your first right, onto Mountain Ave.; follow until the stop sign at the end. Take a left onto Main Street, and follow to Thayer Gate. After going through Thayer Gate, go to the first stop sign and make a left up Mills Road. WPAOG is two blocks up the hill on the right in the beautiful and impressive Herbert Alumni Center.
From New Jersey
Take Route 17 North to Rt. 6, and east to Rt. 293. Take Rt. 293 to Route 9W South. Take the first West Point exit (you’ll exit to the right, under an overpass; says, “Highland Falls, Rt. 218”). Follow the ramp over the overpass and take the first right, onto Mountain Ave.; follow until the stop sign at the end. Take a left onto Main Street, and follow to Thayer Gate. After going through Thayer Gate, go to the first stop sign and make a left up Mills Road. The WPAOG is two blocks up the hill on the right in the beautiful and impressive Herbert Alumni Center.
Bus / Train Route
Take Olympia Trails to Grand Central Station, then MTA's Metro North’s Hudson Line up the East side of the Hudson to Garrison. There are various taxi numbers posted at the Garrison Train Station. Another option is the Shortline Bus which stops right in Highland Falls at the Visitors Center.
Driving Directions from Google
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