How to open a terminal window in a path currently visible in the Finder?

I often need to open a terminal window with the current visible folder (a long, deep path) as the working directory.
In Windows I used to have the little "Open command window here..." hack available in the context menu in Explorer.
How can I achieve the same on OS X to avoid tediously typing the path?

open a finder window and navigate to one-level above
this visible folder.
open a terminal window.
drag the folder of interest from the finder window
into the terminal window. now you see the whole path
to that folder has been typed out for you....
so, if you wanted to 'cd' into that folder in
terminal, you'd type cd, then a space, into the
terminal window, then drag that folder in there from
the finder, then hit return.... viola!
If the folder you want is already open, you can drag the icon at the top of the Finder window. You don't have to go one level up.

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