WESTCHESTER SCAVENGER HUNTS

Ready for team-building with a dash of culture? On each of our scavenger hunts, you decipher clues to answer tricky, funny questions about the places you visit and things you find. Our hunts have been acclaimed by the New York Times, ABC News, Time Out New York, Daily Candy, the Washington Post, Citysearch, Newsday and numerous other media outlets.

Since 1999, Watson Adventures has staged hunts for more than 750 prestigious companies, trade associations, social groups, alumni groups, bachelorettes, school groups and more. For details on how the hunts work, and to see our rave reviews and prestigious clients, visit the Private Hunts page. Our Westchester locations include...

Mount Kisco
Purchase: Neuberger Museum of Art
Somers: Muscoot Farm
Tarrytown: Lyndhurst Mansion
Tarrytown: Tappan Hill Mansion
Yonkers: Hudson River Museum
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Nearby Connecticut Hunt Locations
See Connecticut Locations for options in Greenwich, Ridgefield, South Norwalk and Stamford.

New York City Hunt Locations
The Bronx Zoo, Grand Central and other convenient options

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WESTCHESTER SCAVENGER HUNT LOCATIONS

Mount Kisco: The Munch Around Mount Kisco Scavenger Hunt

The charming downtown of Mount Kisco has turned into a northern Westchester food mecca. Within an easy walk you can take a culinary tour of the world, with stops at acclaimed eateries offering such cuisines Asian fusion, Greek, Indian, Mexican, new American, Thai and Italian. Plus there are mouth-watering opportunities for desserts ranging from authentic gelati to UFO cookies. On this hunt you’ll be challenged to answer questions about interesting and unusual stores and historic spots in Mount Kisco while collecting and sampling your choice of tasty morsels along the way. The winners are the the ones with the best teamwork—and your taste buds. This hunt requires walking outdoors with indoors stops. The town is near the Saw Mill Parkway and I-684, it has plenty of parking close to the hunt route, and its Metro-North station is on the hunt route. Contact us for more information.

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Purchase: Neuberger Museum of Art

On the campus of SUNY’s Purchase College, this museum combines a great collection of paintings by modern masters with special exhibits on cutting-edge contemporary works and a distinctive gallery of African art. As on all of our acclaimed art museum hunts, you and your team will be searching for answers to tricky questions about the more surprising and unusual aspects of the works on display. You don’t need any special knowledge about art: you just need sharp eyes and good teamwork. The availability of this hunt is subject to the timing and nature of the special exhibitions currently on display. To round out an hour-and-a-half hunt, we recommend combining this hunt with our lively Know Your Teammates Quiz, where you must identify people on other teams based on surprising, little-known facts about them. For more information about the museum, visit www.neuberger.org. Contact us for more information about the hunt.

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Somers: Muscoot Farm

Established in 1880 and a working dairy until 1967, Muscoot Farm offers the chance to explore historic buildings and walk among animals to find out what it was like to be a gentlemen farmer. Highlights on the hunt include a museum, the dairy barn, the milk house, the ice house, the blacksmith shop, the stately “mansion”and live chickens, horses, cows, pigs and other critters. As always, your team will be searching for answers to tricky, humorous questions that can only be answered by exploring the location on an unusual fact-finding mission. You can also add Team Photo Challenges, in which each team is equipped with a camera to meet the criteria of unusual photo ops, with bonus points going to the team with the most creative photos. If you want to take your group somewhere unusual for what seems like a day in the country—but is more exciting than an aimless ramble—then go on our Muscoot Farm adventure. For more for information about the farm, visit www.muscootfarm.org. For more information about the hunt, contact us.

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Tarrytown: Lyndhurst
 
Lead the life of a Gilded Age robber baron, if only for an afternoon, on a hunt that goes from the palatial rooms of a Gothic mansion to the large and lush grounds of the estate. Lyndhurst mansion and its grounds were once the domain of Jay Gould, the multi-millionaire who made his fortune in railroads. His home looks just about the way he left it. This hunt requires good weather because you’ll also explore the beautiful gardens and paths past the carriage house, the conservatory and the bowling alley. You don’t need to know the history of Lyndhurst or its residents to tackle the hunt’s tricky questions, you just need sharp eyes and good teamwork. You can also add Team Photo Challenges, in which each team is equipped with a camera to meet the criteria of unusual photo ops, with bonus points going to the team with the most creative photos. Lyndhurst has a caterer for a possible post-hunt party. For more information about Lyndhurst, visit www.lyndhurst.org. For more information about the hunt, contact us.

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Tarrytown: Tappan Hill Mansion

If you’re having an off-site conference or other special event, you can’t find a more interesting and congenial setting than Tappan Hill Mansion, managed by special event maestro Abigail Kirsch. A home built by Mark Twain for one of his daughters, the building has rooms spacious and intimate, in a building tucked into a hillside with views of the Hudson River and the hills beyond. During your visit, if you need an activity to provide an exciting break and help people get better acquainted, you need our special Tappan Hill Challenge scavenger hunt. Your team will not only see the most interesting and historical aspects of the facility, you’ll also tackle challenges that involve great works of art, movies set in New York City, quirky trivia and Team Photo Challenges. You can also add our Know You Colleagues Challenge in which participants must identify fellow competitors based on surprising details about them. Mastercard raved about this hunt when we staged it for more than 100 of their employees from around the world. For more information about the hunt, contact us.

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Yonkers: Hudson River Museum

This museum provides and unusual and eclectic location for a scavenger hunt: a combination of a historic Victorian mansion and new galleries with unusual special exhibits. As on all of our acclaimed art museum hunts, you and your team will be searching for answers to tricky questions about the more surprising and unusual aspects of the works on display. You don’t need any special knowledge about art: you just need sharp eyes and good teamwork. The availability of this hunt is subject to the timing and nature of the special exhibitions currently on display. To round out an hour-and-a-half hunt, we recommend combining this hunt with our lively Know Your Teammates Quiz, where you must identify people on other teams based on surprising, little-known facts about them. For more information about the museum, visit www.hrm.org. For more information about the hunt, contact us.

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We’re always looking for new locations, and we also offer the classic, popular Grab ’n’ Go Hunt, that can be staged anywhere—villages, parks, resorts, neighborhoods, you name it. Contact us to find out what we can create for you!

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NEARBY CONNECTICUT HUNT LOCATIONS

Just across the border of Westchester lie great hunt locations. You can explore downtown Greenwich or Stamford on outdoor hunts, or get a dash of culture on museum scavenger hunt at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich or the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield. Or you get in the swim with the fishes and reptiles at the Maritime Aquarium in South Norwalk. See Connecticut Hunt Locations to learn more or contact us.

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NEW YORK CITY HUNT LOCATIONS

A number of our New York City hunts are fairly convenient to Westchester commuters:

• The Bronx Zoo is just off the Bronx River Parkway and has not only proven popular with all kinds of groups, from American Express to summer camps. The zoo’s new conference facilities and its private dining options make it a great location for an off-site meeting or other private function. And our hunt provides a great way to see the best of the zoo on a whirlwind tour. Learn more

• The Secrets of Grand Central Scavenger Hunt reveals the hidden history, fantastic foods and other unusual sights of the famed terminal and its neighbors—and the hunt begins just steps away from your Metro-North train. Learn more

• Midtown Manhattan reveals its secrets on our popular Midtown Madness, 42nd Street Scramble and Movie Location hunts, all of which can begin from Grand Central. Learn more

Discover all of our New York City hunt locations or contact us to find out what we can create for you!


PRINT OUT OUR TRI-STATE AREA BROCHURE

If you’d like a compact summary of our hunts to bring to a meeting, to show friends, or to help get future hunters excited, click the link below to call up our brochure as a PDF file. You may need Acrobat Reader to access it (click here to get it for free). Or you can contact us to mail or fax you a copy.

See the Tri-State Area brochure.

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TRY A PUBLIC HUNT, SEE OUR NEW YORK NEWSLETTER

Watson Adventures regularly offers hunts that are open to the public for low promotional prices. To see the latest schedule, check out the New York edition of The Culture Vulture. If you’d like to receive this free monthly newsletter in your own e-mail box, click the link below—and on the next page you’ll see, be sure to check off “New York Area.”

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Last updated: 20-Jan-2010 2:50 PM