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Page numbers in bold refer to the primary park description.

13 Bridges Loop, 273-274 bald eagles, 124, 125 Bald Mountain, 132 Abercrombie & Fitch, 100 Baldwin Place Abercrombie, David T., 100 North County Trailway, 362 Agnew Pond, 98 Barney Brook Trail, 220 Albany Post Road, 374 Barch Reservoir, 230 Albert Leonard Middle School, 186 Bass Trail, 129 Aldenwold mansion, 70 Battle of Merritt Hill, 174 Alder Manor, 243 Battle of White Plains, 174 Algonquin Trail, 139-140 Baur, Jack and Louisa, 146 Alice Lane, 41 Baur Meadow Trail, 146 Amawalk Reservoir, 156 Bayer Corporation, 55 American Chestnut Foundation, 154 Baxter Tract, 196-197 American Heritage River, 213 Bear Mountain Bridge, 205 American Museum of Natural History, 44, 213 , 207 American Revolution, 6, 7, 66, 394 Bear Rock Trail, 306 American Saddle Company, 186 Beaver Dam River, 172, 198 Anable, Gloria Hollister, 230 Beaver Dam Sanctuary, 198-200, 390 Anderson, Henry, 234 Bechtel, Edwin, 251 Angle Fly Preserve, 405 Becky’s Brook, 247 Annsville Creek, 141, 319-320 Bedford Annsville Creek Trail, 142-143 Guard Hill Park, 7 Annsville Creek Paddlesport Center, 319 Bedford Audubon Society, 58, 144, 392 Annsville Preserve, 319-320 Bedford Hills Anthony’s Nose, 195, 205, 207 Leatherman’s Ridge, 9-10 , 207 Bedford Hills Golf and Tennis Club, 251 Aqua Trail (Burden Preserve), 51 Bedford Riding Lanes Association (BRLA), 77, Aqueduct, The, see Old State 171, 173, 251, 390 Historic Park membership, 200 Archville, 370 trails, 77, 78, 79, 171, 172, 198, 200, 253 Ardsley-on-Hudson Bedford Village Ardsley Waterfront, 328 Guard Hill Preserve, 391 Arleo family, 12 Preserve, 229-231 Arlington Memorial Bridge, 106 Piney Woods Preserve, 393 Armonk St. Matthew’s Church Woodlands, 171-173 Meyer Preserve, 224-228 Beech Trail, 115 Nichols Preserve, 80-81 Beeline Bus, schedules and routes, 406 Sluder Nature Preserve, 98-99 Bell property, 157 Ash Tree Loop, 270 Beltzhoover Estate, 7 ash yellows, 270 Teahouse, 7-8 Atlantic flyway, 24 Belvedere, 372 Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, 335 Berol, Henry, 190 ATT Line, 117, 405 Betsy Sluder Nature Preserve, see Sluder ATT Right-of-Way, 166 Nature Preserve Audubon Society of , 94 Between the Railroad and the River, 319 Bicycle Sunday, 344 Back 40 Trail, 290 Big Brook, 148 Bailey Brook, 287 Big Rock Loop, 146 Bailey, George, 234 Big Tree Trail, 274

412 WALKABLE WESTCHESTER Birnie/Smith farm, 138 botanical research, 154 Black Rock Park, 4 Boyce Thompson Arboretum, 243 blue disk trail, 261 Boyce Thompson Lane, 244-245 Blue Farm Road, 241 Briarcliff Manor Blue Heron Lake, 10, 11 North County Trailway, 363 Blue Mountain Reservation, 106, 258-264, Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park, 342 369 blue disk trail, 261 Briarcliff Manor Public Library, 363 blue trail, 259-261 Briarcliff Peekskill Trailway, 132, 259, 261, 291, Briarcliff Peekskill Trailway, 261 339-343 orange trail, 261 Brink of Gorge Trail, 229-230 purple trail, 261 Brinton, Laura and Willard, 112 red trail, 261-262 Brinton Brook Sanctuary, 112-114, 115 single-track bike rails, 264 BRLA, see Bedford Riding Lanes Association white trail, 262 BRLA Sanctuary Access Trail, 172 yellow disk trail, 263 Broad Brook, 198 yellow/orange trail, 263-264 Broccy Creek, 207 yellow trail, 263 Bronx Blue Mountain Summit Trail, 266 , 385 blue-red trail Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park, Lewisboro Town Park, 315 377 Old Field Preserve, 83 , 8 Blue Star Memorial By-Way, 155 Bronx River Parkway, 8, 344 blue trail Bronx River Reservation, 344-349, 405 Blue Mountain Reservation, 259-261 history, 346 Brownell Preserve, 117 Pathway, 212, 344 Burden Preserve, 50-51 Bronxville Butler Memorial Sanctuary, 202-203 Bronx River Pathway, 349 Cranberry Lake Preserve, 210-211 Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 148, 287 Depew Park, 266 Brook Trail, 270 Franklin-Fels Nature Sanctuary, 58 Brookside Trail, 253 Gedney Park, 121 Brother’s Path, 271 Glazier Arboretum, 59-60 Brown Trail, 300-302 Graham Hills Park, 216-217 Brownell, Katharine and George, 116 Hardscrabble Wilderness Area, 135 Brownell Preserve, 116-117 Hart’s Brook Park and Preserve, 64 Buchanan Lasdon Park & Arboretum, 154 Lents Cove, 321-322 Leon Levy Preserve, 157-158 Bud’s Way, 89-90 Lewisboro Town Park, 315 Bulkley Tract, 401 Merestead, 77-79 Burden, William A.M., 50 Montrose Point State Forest, 39 Burden Preserve, 50-52, 163 Morgenthau Preserve, 10-11 Burger, Ralph, 335 Muscoot Farm, 241 Butler, Anna and Arthur, 201 Mountain Lakes Park, 235 Butler, Emily O., 347, 405 Old Field Preserve, 84 Butler Memorial Sanctuary, 76, 77, 78, 79, Onatru Farm Park and Preserve, 41 201-204 Reis Park, 42-43 blue trail, 202-203 Silver Lake Preserve, 174 orange trails, 203-204 Sluder Nature Preserve, 99 red trail, 201-202 Sunny Ridge Preserve, 101 yellow trail, 204 Turkey Mountain Nature Preserve, 181-182 Butterfly Garden, 71, 72 Ward Acres Park, 188 Buttermilk Ridge Park, 53-54 Whippoorwill Park, 190-192 Bye Preserve, 2 Boardwalk Trail, 115 Bylane Farm, 144 Boone Trail, 313-314

INDEX 413 Camp Morty, 234 Cooper, James Fenimore, 394 Camp Smith National Guard Training Site, Cooper, Samuel, 329 205 Cornell, A.B., 23 Camp Smith Trail, 205-207 Cornell Dam, 23 Campfire Circle Trail, 67 Cortlandt Canfield, Jane, 393 Briarcliff Peekskill Trailway, 340-341 Carnegie, Andrew, 29 Hudson Highlands Gateway Park, 141-143 Carolin’s Grove, 2-3 Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park, Carpenter Pond, 405 367-368 Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School, 4 Cortlandt complex, 38, 258 Castle Rock Trail, 306 Cotton, John, 355 Catamount Hill Trail, 295-296 County Tennis Club of Westchester, 346 Catbird Trail, 254 Coward, Marian, 393 Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 104 Coyote Trail, 112-113 Catskill Aqueduct, 122, 385, 405 Cranberry Lake, 208, 210 Caulkins, Katherine, 393 Cranberry Lake Preserve, 208-212 Ceconi, Giovanna, 28 history, 210 cemeteries, walking, 404 history trail, 208, 212 Chappaqua red trail, 211-212 Glazier Arboretum, 59-61 yellow trail, 208-210 Pinecliff Sanctuary, 12-13 Crawbuckie Nature Preserve, 324, 368 Whippoorwill Park, 190-193 Crawford, Edna and Everett, 3 Charles Cook Park, 341 Crawford Park, 3-4 Charles Point Park, 321 Croft, The, 287 Chestnut Hill Trail, 150 Crom Pond, 119, 120 Chickadee Trail, 254 , 8 Child Services League, 181 Cross River Children’s Village, 139 Lewisboro Nature Preserve, 315 Chinese Friendship Pavilion and Culture Lewisboro Town Park, 315 Garden, 152, 153, 155 Palmer H. Lewis Wildlife Sanctuary, 392- Choate, Joseph H., Jr., 18 393 Choate Sanctuary, 18-19 Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, 297-314 Civil War veterans, 174 Croton Dam, see New Croton Dam Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 120, 258, Croton grape, 213 299 Croton Gorge Park, 22-23 Blue Mountain, 260 Croton Landing Park, 322-323 history, 260 Croton-on-Hudson Ward Pound Ridge, 299, 304 Black Rock Park, 4 Clark, Ben and Charlotte, 20 Brinton Brook Sanctuary, 112-114 Clark Preserve, 20-21 Croton Gorge Park, 22-23 Cliff Emanuelson Trail, see Emanuelson Trail Croton Point Park, 213-215 Cliff Trail, 226-227 Croton River Gorge Park, 4 Cliffdale Farm, 287 Croton Waterfront to Ossining, 322-324 Cliffdale Loop Trail, 296 Silver Lake Park, 4 Cliffdale-Teatown Trail, 294-295 Village of Croton Trail, 115 Clinton family farm, 141 Croton Point Park, 213-215, 234 Cobbling Rock Farm, 152 Croton Reservoir, 147, 148 Colabaugh Pond Road, 341 Croton River Gorge Park, 4 Coles Kettle Trail, 254-255 Croton Waterfront to Ossining, 322-324 college campuses, walking on, 404 Crugers Colonial Greenway, 35, 37, 183-184, 188-189, Graff Sanctuary, 87-88 285-286, 350, 357, 389, 393-397, 404 Oscawana Park, 86-87 historical figures of, 394 Crystal Spring Trail, 92 Con Edison, 107 Continental Village, 141 Danny Way Ramble, 244

414 WALKABLE WESTCHESTER Bird Sanctuary, 333 Eastview Davenport Park, 332-333 Buttermilk Ridge Park, 53-54 David’s Loop, 271 North County Trailway, 363, 365 Dearman Farm, 327 South County Trailway, 381 Declaration of Independence, signer of, 24 Tarrytown Lakes Park, 56 Deer Hollow Trail, 302-303 Easy Loop, 251-252 Deer Loop Trail, 92 Edgemont High School, 25 Deer Run, 271 Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary, see Read Delano and Aldrich, Architects, 78 Wildlife Sanctuary Delaware Aqueduct, 35, 36 Eighteenth Amendment, 18 Depew, Chauncey Mitchell, 264 Elda (Abercrombie castle), 100 Depew Park, 264-267 Elmsford Depew’s Woods, 264 South County Trailway, 381-382 de Peyster Todd Woodlands, 230 Ellis, Thomas H., 106 Depression, Great, 46, 258, 260 Emanuelson Trail, 36-37 Devries Park, 28 Emergency Conservation Work Act, 260 dirt roads, walking on, 404 Engle Park, 325 Dirt Trails Association, 390 Enoch’s Neck, 215 Discovery Cove, 323 Entrance Trail, 20 Disney, Walt, 132 Eric’s Over the Log Trail, 244 Dobbs Ferry Erskine, Robert, 7 Dobbs Ferry Waterfront Park, 328 Esplanade Park, 330 Juhring Estate, 31 Eugene and Agnes Meyer Preserve, see Meyer Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park, Preserve 373 South County Trailway, 382-383 Fahnestock State Park, 386 Dobbs Ferry High School, 373 Falls Trail, 127, 129 Dobbs Ferry Waterfront Park, 328 Famous and Historic Tree Trail, 155 dogwood anthracnose, 292 Fantasia, 132 Dogwood Trail, 135 Far from the Madding Crowd, 277 Douglas Park, 28, 371 Farm Meadow Trail, 271 Douglas, William H., 28 FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt) State Park, 118- Down by the Riverside, 319 120, 260 Downing Park, 120 history of, 120 Dragonfly Pond, 71 FDR Veterans Hospital, 126 Draper, John, 374 Federal Alcohol Control Administration, 18 Draper Park, 140, 374 Federal Aviation Administration, 83 Dunscombe, Mrs. Fancis R., 130 Fern Trail, 91 Dunwoodie County Golf Course, 384, 385 First Reformed Church, 140 Durand Tract and Nature Trail, 401 fitness course (Reis Park), 42 Five Islands Park, 333 Eagle Hill Trail, 275 Five Ponds Trail, 5-6, 45 Eagle Hill Summit Trail, 275 Fordham gneiss, 130, 139 Eagle Pencil Company, 190 Forest Trail, 25 , 337, 398 Fort Hill Park, 6 East Irvington Foss, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson P., 127 East Irvington Nature Preserve, 4-5 Foundation Loop, 169 East Irvington Nature Preserve, 4-5 Fowler Rock, 247 East Rumbrook Park, 5 Fox Hill Trail, 306-307 Eastchester Fox Meadow Estate, 405 Briarcliff Peekskill Trailway, 348 Fox Run Trail, 255 Colonial Greenway, 394-395 Franklin-Fels Nature Sanctuary, 57-58 Pathway, 352-353 Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) State Park, see Nature Study Woods, 183-185 FDR State Park Twin Lakes Park, 183-185 Fred Zwick Fitness Trail, see Zwick Fitness

INDEX 415 Trail Grand Stone Staircase, 247 Frederick P. Rose Nature Preserve, see Rose Grant, Dr. C. W., 205 Nature Preserve Grant Lookout Trail, 105 Frick, Helen Clay, 251 Grasslands, 219 Friends of Lasdon Park & Arboretum, 152 Great Depression, 106 Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct, 368, 374 Great Hunger Park at Woodland Lakes, 219, Friends of the Old Dutch Church, 30 379 Friends of the Reservoir, 35 green trail Friends of Rye Nature Center, 96 Depew Park, 266 Fringe of the Forest Trail, 230-231 Graham Hills Park, 218 Furnace Brook, 86 Hart’s Brook Park and Preserve, 64 John E. Hand Park, 132 Gaisman Estate, 62 Lasdon Park & Arboretum, 154 Gaisman, Henry and Catherine, 63 Merestead, 79 Garden Lake, 35 Mountain Lakes Park, 236 Gedney Brook Sanctuary, 91 Muscoot Farm, 241 Gedney Park, 121-123 Rose Nature Preserve, 44-45 Gedney Swamp, 93 Sluder Nature Preserve, 99 geocaching, 237 Sunny Ridge Preserve, 101-102 George’s Island, history, 126 Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, 307 George’s Island Park, 39, 124-126 Green Way, 32 George MacKay Estate, 59 Greenacres Avenue, 344-347 George Washington Bridge, 104 Greenburgh George Washington National Forest, 260 East Rumbrook Park, 5 giant sequoia, 59 Greenburgh Nature Center, 24-25 Giffinet, Françoise, 14 South County Trailway, 382 Gillette Company, 63 Taxter Ridge, 405 Ginsberg Development Companies, 6, 54 Greenburgh Nature Center, 24-25 Glazier Arboretum, 59-61, 193 Manor House, 24, 25 Glazier, Henry S., Jr., 59 Greenrock Corporation, 268 Glebe Trail (The), 171-172 Greenwich Riding and Trails Association, 81 , 331-332 Grenci, Bruno M., 106 Glenville Community Association, 54 Greystone, 72 Glenville Woods Park Preserve, 54-56 Grierson Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary, 127- global positioning system (GPS), 237 130, 146 Goldens Bridge Grierson, Mildred E. and Stanley, 127 Brownell Preserve, 116-117 Grierson Trail, 129-130 Marx Tract, 116-117 Griffen family, 180 Goldens Bridge Hounds, 400 Guard Hill Park, 7 golf courses, walking on, 404 Guard Hill Preserve, 391 Gompers, Samuel, 29 Gulf Oil Company, 26 Goodliffe, John T., 35 Goodliffe Pond, 35, 36 Hackley School, 53 Gormley’s Brick Manufactory, 126 Half Moon, 213 Gory Brook Road Trail, 275 Half Moon Bay, 323 Gould, Jay, 371 Halle Properties Corporation, 26 GPS, see global positioning system Halle Ravine Nature Preserve, 17, 26-27, 89 Gracemere, 371 Halsey Pond, 1, 7-8 Graff, Howard, 87 Hamilton, Alexander, 372 Graff Sanctuary, 87-88 Hammershlag, Robert J., 201 Graham Hills Park, 216-218 Hand, John E., 132 Graham, Dr. Isaac Gilbert, 216 Hand Park, 132-133 Graham, Katherine Meyer, 224 Hanover Street, 66 Graham School, 375 Harbor Island Park, 335-336 Grand Central Terminal, 46 Hardscrabble Trail, 135

416 WALKABLE WESTCHESTER Hardscrabble Wilderness Area, 134-137 Horseman’s Trail, 28-29 Hardy, Thomas, 277 Houlihan, 82 Harriman, Governor Averell, 120 Hubber Trail Extension, 329 Harriman State Park, 207 Huber, Walter, 201 Harrison Hudson Fulton Park, 330 Silver Lake Preserve, 174-177 Hudson, Henry, 213 Hartsdale Hudson Highlands Gateway Park, 141-143, Bronx River Pathway, 346-347 319 Hart’s Brook Park and Preserve, 62-65 history, 141 Ridge Road Park, 65 Hudson National Golf Club, 113, 115 Hart’s Brook Park and Preserve, 62-65 Access Forum, 319 Hastings-on-Hudson Hudson River Audubon Society, 70 Hastings Trailway, 140 Hudson River Estuary, 320 Hillside Park, 138-140 Hudson River flyway, 24 Hillside Woods, 138-140 Hudson River Museum, 375 Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park, Hudson River Valley Greenway Trail, 28, 124, 374 319, 399-400 Rowley’s Bridge Trail, 329-330 Hudson RiverWalk (Westchester County), 319 South County Trailway, 383 Hudson Spur Overlook Trail, 142, 143 Hastings Trailway, 139, 140 Huguenot Lake, 405 Haubold Gunpowder Mill, 346 Hunt, James Ramsey, 144 Havemeyer Falls, 230 Hunt-Parker Memorial Sanctuary, 144-146, hawk migration, 201 164 Hawk Watch, 71 Hunt Woods Park, 8-9 Hawk Watch, Robert J. Hammershlag, 201 Hunter Brook Linear Park, 68-69 Hazelnut Farm, 83 Hutchinson, Anne, 355, 394 Hearst-Mead Tract, 238 , 183 Hemlock Camp, 234 Hutchinson River Pathway, 184-185, 189, 282- Hemlock Ravine Trail, 150 283, 350-356, 357, 393, 404 Hemlock Spring Trail, 113 history, 350 Hemlock Trail, 255 Hutchinson, William, 355 Henry Morgenthau Preserve, see Morgenthau Preserve Ice Pond Trail, 221 Herbert L. Nichols Preserve, see Nichols Important Birding Area, 94 Preserve, Indian Brook, 130 Hermits Grave Trail, 221 Indian Point Power Plant, 114, 141, 143 Hermits Wetlands Trail, 221 Indian Rock Shelter Trail, 307 Hickory Trail, 18, 128 invasive species, 381 Hidden Lake, 129 Iona Grape, 205 Hidden Valley Trail, 291-292 , 195, 205 Hills, The, 174 Irving, Washington, 29, 30, 372 Hillside Elementary School, 138 Irvington Hillside Park, 138-140 Halsey Pond, 7-8 Algonquin Trail, 139-140 Irvington Woods, 219-223 Hillside Woods, 138-140 Macy Park, 219-223 Algonquin Trail, 139-140 Matthiessen Park, 326 Hilltop Hanover Farm and Environmental Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park, Center, 66-67 372 Hilltop Trail, 292 Scenic Hudson Park, 327 Historic Hudson Valley, 28 Irvington Woods, 5, 219-223 History Trail, 208, 212 Barney Brook Trail, 220 Hobby Hill Quarry Trail, 230 Hermits Grave Trail, 220, 221 Hommocks Conservation Area, 335 Ice Pond Trail, 221 Honey Hollow Trail, 307 Monument Loop Trail, 222 Hopkins family, 239 North South Trail, 220

INDEX 417 Waterline Trail, 220 history, 148 Kitchawan Trail, 148-149 Jack-in-the-Pulpit Trail, 87-88 Ledge Trail, 150 James and Alice de Peyster Todd Woodlands, Old Barn Trail, 150 230 Quarry Ridge Trail, 150 James G. Johnson, Jr. Conservancy, see Red Oak Trail, 150-151 Larchmont Reservoir Kitchawonk Native Americans, 126, 148, 213 Jan Peek Bridge, 142 Kitchawan Trail, 148-149 Jane E. Lytle Memorial Arboretum, see Lytle Knight, Ruth M., 10 Memorial Arboretum Koegel Park, 32-33 Jay Cemetery, 74 Kolping Society, 38, 39, 125 Jay Heritage Center, 74 Jay Homestead, John, 200, 391-392 Lake Bechtel, 252 Jay, John, 74, 391 , 353 Jewish Mental Health Society, 138 Lake Katonah John E. Hand Park, see Hand Park Hunt-Parker Memorial Sanctuary, 114-146 John F. Welch Development Center of the Lake Oscaleta, 235 General Electric Corporation, 366, 368 Lake Trail, 127-129 John Jay Homestead State Historic Site, 200, Lake Waccabuc, 235 391-392 Lake Whoopee, 125, 126 Johnson, Jr. Conservancy, see Larchmont Lakeside Trail, 288 Reservoir Lane, Edward, 40 Joseph G. Caputo Community Center, 325, Larchmont 368 Manor Park, 334-335 Journal News, 219 Premium Marsh Conservation Area, 334 Juhring Estate, 31 Trails Conservation Area, 357, 359 Katonah Larchmont Manor Park Society, 334 Beaver Dam Sanctuary, 198-200 Larchmont Reservoir, 189, 389, 393 John Jay Homestead, 391-392 Larchmont Reservoir-James G. Johnson, Jr. Marion Yarrow Preserve, 127-130 Conservancy, 34-37 Mildred E. Grierson Memorial Wildlife history, 35 Sanctuary, 127-130 wheelchair, all-terrain availability, 35 Mount Holly Preserve, 127, 130-131 Larchmont Water Company, 35 Mount Holly Sanctuary, 164-166 Lasdon Bird and Nature Sanctuary, 155-156 Katonah Ridge Trail, 144, 146 Lasdon Park, Arboretum & Veterans Katzenbach, Emory, 84 Memorial, 152-156 Keeler Memorial Library, 401 Blue Star Memorial By-Way, 155 Keeler Tract, 402 blue trail, 154 Keeper’s House, 374 botanical research, 154 Kendall, Donald M., 13 Chinese Friendship Pavilion and Culture Kensico Cemetery, 404 Garden, 152, 153, 155 Kensico Dam, 210 Famous and Historic Tree Trail, 155 Ketchum Sanctuary, 171 green trail, 154 Kieran, John, 251 history, 152 Kingsland, Ambrose C., 325 Lasdon Bird and Nature Sanctuary, 155-156 Kingsland Point Park, 325-326 red trail, 154 Kitchawan unmarked woods roads, 156 Kitchawan Preserve, 147-151 yellow trail, 153 North County Trailway, 362 Lasdon, William and Mildred, 152 Kitchawan Auxiliary, 148 Last of the , 394 Kitchawan Institute, 148 Laurel Brook, 8, 9 Kitchawan Preserve, 147-151 Laurel Rock Trail, 114 Chestnut Hill Trail, 149 Laurel Trail, 255, 308-309 Hemlock Ravine Trail, 150 Law, Walter, 363

418 WALKABLE WESTCHESTER Lawther, Carolin and Robert, 2 MacKay, George, Estate, 59 Layer Cake Rock, 247 Macy Park, 219-223, 379 Leatherman, 309 Barney Brook Trail, 220 Leatherman’s Loop, 309-310 Great Hunger Park at Woodland Lakes, 219 Leatherman’s Ridge, 9-10 Hermits Grave Trail, 220, 221 Leatherstocking Tales, The, 394 Ice Pond Trail, 221 Leatherstocking Trail, 37, 189, 357-359, 393, Monument Loop Trail, 222 394 North South Trail, 220 Leddy, Tom, 35 Waterline Trail, 220 Leddy Trail, 35-36 Macy, V. Evrerit, 219 Ledge Trail, 150 malls, enclosed, walking in, 404 Lefurgy farm, 138 main trail, 130 Lefurgy, Isaac, 140 Mamaroneck, 34 Lefurgy Park, 140 Colonial Greenway, 396 Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The, 30 Harbor Island Park, 335-336 Lents Cove, 321-322 Hommocks Conservation Area, 335 Leonard, Martha, 160 Leatherstocking Trail, 357-359 Leonard Park, 78, 160, 163 Otter Creek Preserve, 336-337 Lenoir Preserve, 70-72, 375 Mamaroneck Avenue Trail, 283 Lents Cove, 321-322 Manhattan, 46 Leon Levy Preserve, see Levy Preserve Manhattanville College, 404 Levy, Jay, 157 Manitou Mountain, 206 Levy, Leon, 157 Manor Park, 334-335 Levy Preserve, 41, 157-159 Maple Trail, 127 Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Hobart, 393 Marbury, Anne (Hutchinson), 355 Lewis Wildlife Sanctuary, 392-393 Marion Yarrow Preserve, see Yarrow Preserve Lewisboro, 40 Marsh Memorial Sanctuary, 78, 79, 160-163 Brownell Preserve, 116-117 Marsh, Norman and Cornelia, 160 Lewisboro Town Park, 84, 315 Marshalls Pond, 221 Marx Tract, 116-117 Marshlands Conservancy, 49, 74-75 Lewisboro Horsemen’s Association (LHA), Marshlands Trail, 115 44, 83, 400 Marx Tract, 116, 117 Lewsiboro Town Park, 84, 315 Mason, Frank E., 251 Liberty Park, 174 Massachusetts Bay Colony, 355 lichen, 51 Matthiessen Park (family), 326 LIFE Center Field Station, 36 McAndrew Estate, 86 Link Trail, 115 McCord, Robert, 213 Little Roundabout Rock, 248 Mead, Enoch, 82 Local Involvement for Environment (LIFE), 35 Mead Memorial Chapel (family), 85 Loch Ledge, 181 Meadow Trail, 128 Locke, Lydia, 180 Mearl Corporation, 368 Sound, 74 measured loops, walking on, 404-405 Long Pond Preserve, 45, 85 Merchant Marine Memorial, 153 Long View, 28 Mercy College, 328, 373 Loop #1 (Saxton Woods Park), 283-285 Merestead, 76-79, 163, 390 Lost Pond Trail, 255-256 Bedford Riding Lanes Association (BRLA), Lounsbury family, 258 77 Lounsbury Pond, 258 Carriage House, 77 Lover Trees, 247 history, 78 Low, James and Tanya, 393 Merritt Hill, 174 Lower Trail, 169 Metcalf, Henry, 81 Lower Loop Trail, 172-173 Meyer, Eugene and Agnes, 224 Lyndhurst, 372 Meyer Foundation, 224 Lytle Memorial Arboretum, 113, 115 Meyer Preserve, 79, 224-228 Cliff Trail, 226-227

INDEX 419 Oregon Trail, 227 Westmoreland Sanctuary, 251-256 Ravine Trail, 227 Mount Spitzenberg, 342 Ridge Trail, 227-228 Mount Vernon, 8, 46 Yellow Trails, 224-225 Bronx River Reservation, 349 Mianus River Gorge Preserve, 229-231 Hunt Woods Park, 8-9 Brink of Gorge Trail, 229-230 Hutchinson River Pathway, 354-356 Fringe of Forest Trail, 230-231 Mountain Lakes Park, 213, 232-238 Hobby Hill Quarry, 231 blue trail, 235 Mildred D. Lasdon Bird and Nature Sanctuary, blue/white trail 235 see Lasdon Bird and Nature Sanctuary green trail, 236 Mildred E. Grierson Memorial Wildlife history, 234 Sanctuary, see Grierson Memorial orange trail, 232-235 Wildlife Sanctuary orange/white trail, 236 Mill Pond Trail, 310 red trail, 236 Miller, Tom, 32 red/green trail, 237 Millwood red/white trail, 237-237 Gedney Park, 121-123 yellow trail, 238 North County Trailway, 362-363 Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 132 Pruyn Sanctuary, 91-93 Mt., see “Mount” Warburg Park, 107-109 MTA schedules, 406 Miniature Airplane Association of Muscoot Farm, 239-242 Westchester, 215 Muscoot River, 198, 239 Mohansic Golf Course, 120, 386, 403, 404 walking paths along, 156 Mohansic Park (Lake), 120 Mohegan Granite, 104, 106 Nannahagen Park, 405 Mohegan Lake, 106 National Audubon Society, 87, 112 Sylvan Glen Park Preserve, 104-106 National Estuarine Research Reserve, 205 Monte Gloria, 230 National Historic Landmark, 229, 337, 366, Montgomery, Jan and Parker, 198 374 Montrose National Institute for Urban Wildlife, 96 George’s Island Park, 39, 124-126 National Register of Historical Places, 76, 325 Montrose Point State Forest, 38-39 Nature Conservancy, (The), 2, 26, 81, 85, 127, Montrose Brick Factory, 38 130, 171, 201, 224, 229, 393 Montrose Point State Forest, 38-39, 125, 126 Nature Study Woods, 46, 183-185, 354, 393 Monument Loop Trail, 222 Colonial Greenway, 183-184 Moon, Sun Myung, 372 Hutchinson River Pathway, 184-185 Morgan, Elijah, 213 Nature’s Way, 272 Morgenthau Preserve, 10-11 Neighborhood parks, walking in, 405 Morris, Dr. Lewis Rutherford, 24 Nelson Sitting Park, 369 Motts Hill, 100 Nevis, 372 Mount Bailey, 232 New Castle, 50 Mount Holly Preserve, 127, 130-131, 146 Warburg Park, 107-109 Mount Holly Sanctuary, 111, 127, 144, 146, New Castle Land Conservancy, 12 164-166 New Croton Dam, 22, 23 Mount Hope A. M. E. Zion Church of White New Deal, 260 Plains, 174 New Netherland, 355 Mount Hope Cemetery, 404 New Pond, 258 Mt. Kisco New Rochelle, 34 Burden Preserve, 50-52 Colonial Greenway, 396 Butler Memorial Sanctuary, 201-204 Davenport Neck Bird Sanctuary, 333 Choate Sanctuary, 18-19 Davenport Park, 332-333 Guard Hill Park, 7 Five Islands Park, 333 Leonard Park, 160, 163 Glen Island Park, 331-332 Marsh Memorial Sanctuary, 160-163 Hutchinson River Pathway, 352-354 Merestead, 76-79 Leatherstocking Trail, 357-359

420 WALKABLE WESTCHESTER Ward Acres Park, 186-189 Old Field Preserve, 45, 82-84 , 405 history, 82-83 New York Central Railroad, 264 Old Railroad Bed, 272 Putnam Line, 53, 216, 360, 379 Old Sleepy Hollow Road Trail, 272 Department of Environmental Oldenburg, Claes, 14 Protection, 132 Olmstead, Frederick Law, 167 New York Herald Tribune, 404 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, 180 New York State Department of Environmental Onatru Farm Park and Preserve, 40-41 Conservation (DEC), 38 camping, 40 New York State Hospital Commission, 120 Open Space Institute, 12, 54 New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Ophir Farm, 404 Historic Preservation, 63, 120 Oppenheimer Funds, 157 New York State Training School for Boys, 120 orange trail New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Burden Preserve, 51 Company, 46 Butler Memorial Sanctuary, 203-204 New York, Westchester & Boston Railway, 46, Blue Mountain Reservation, 261 183, 184, 354 Depew Park, 265-266 Nichols, Herbert, L. Jr., 81 Glazier Arboretum, 61 Nichols, Herbert, L. Sr., 80 Glenville Woods Park Preserve, 55 Nichols Preserve, 80-81 Graham Hills Park, 218 Night on Bald Mountain, A, 132 Hart’s Brook Park and Preserve, 64-65 Norman, Edward A., 164 Hardscrabble Wilderness Area, 135 North Brothers Loop, 245-246 Leon Levy Preserve, 159 North County Trailway, 32, 33, 123, 148, 182, Mountain Lakes Park, 232-234 317, 360-365 Old Field Preserve, 84 North 40 Trail, 25 Sunny Ridge Preserve, 102 North Main Trail, 165 Ward Pound Ridge, 310-311 North Salem Orchard Trail, 25 Baxter Tract, 196-197 Ordovician Cortlandt complex, 106 Bulkley Tract, 401 Oregon Trail, 227 Franklin-Fels Nature Sanctuary, 57-58 Oscawana Island Park, 86-87 Hearst-Mead Tract, 238 Ossining Mountain Lakes Park, 232-238 Briarcliff Peekskill Trailway, 339-343 North Salem Bridle Trail Association, 400-401 Crawbuckie Nature Preserve, 324 North Salem Open Land Foundation (NSOLF), Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park, 116, 196, 400 368-369 North South Trail, 222 Ossining Waterfront, 325 North Trail, 130, 131 Sunny Ridge Preserve, 100-103 North Trail Extension, 130, 131 Wishnie Park, 405 Northern Westchester Hospital, 78 Ossining Heritage Visitors Center, 325, 368, Northwest Trail, 292-293 378 Ossining Waterfront, 325 Oak Trail, 25 Otter Creek Preserve 336-337 Oakland Beach, 95, 337 Our Lady of Victory Academy, 373 Oakwood Island, 333 Overlook Trail, 272, 293 Octagon House, 372 Old Barn Trail, 150 Paine Cottage and Museum, 394 Old Church Lane Preserve, 11-12, 41 Paine Heights, 394 Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Site, 22, Paine, Thomas, 394 23, 28, 70, 71, 72, 140, 170, 178, 325, Page, Russell, 14 329, 366-378 Palisades Interstate Park, 205 history of, 373 Palmer H. Lewis Wildlife Sanctuary, see Lewis Keeper’s House, 374 Nature Sanctuary Old Dutch Burying Ground, 30 Parker, Mary Welsh, 144 Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, 30 Parson family estate, 96

INDEX 421 Patterson, Mrs. Robert L., 78 Bye Preserve, 2 Peaceful Path, 272 Carolin’s Grove, 2-3 Peekskill Clark Preserve, 20-21 Annsville Creek, 319-320 Halle Ravine Preserve, 26-27 Annsville Preserve, 319-320 Henry Morgenthau Preserve, 10-11 Blue Mountain Reservation, 258-264 Pine Terrace Preserve, 26-27 Briarcliff Peekskill Trailway, 342 Pound Ridge Town Park, 89-90 Charles Point Park, 320 Westchester Wilderness Walk, 247-250 Depew Park, 264-267 Pound Ridge Elementary School, 2 Camp Smith Trail, 205-207 Pound Ridge Land Conservancy 23, 26 Fort Hill Park, 6 Pound Ridge Reservation, 299, 301 Peekskill Riverfront Green Park, 320-321 Pound Ridge Town Park, 89-90 Peekskill granite, 105 Premium Marsh Conservation Area, 334 Peekskill Riverfront Green Park, 320-321 preserved open space, walking in, 405 Peekskill Yacht Club, 320 prickly pear cactus, 205 Peggy’s Way, 275 Primrose School, 42 Pelham Manor Prohibition, 18 East Coast Greenway, 398 Pruyn, Agnes and Dr. F. Morgan, 91 Pelham Manor Shore Park, 331 Pruyn Sanctuary, 91-93, 123 Pelham Manor Shore Park, 331 Pruyn Trail, 93 Pelham Neck, 355 Pulver, John Henry, 140 Pennington, Amy and Brian, 391 Pulvers Woods, 140 PepsiCo Sculpture Garden, see Sculpture Purchase Garden at PepsiCo Sculpture Garden at PepsiCo, 14-15 PepsiCo World Headquarters, 13 Purchase Friends Meeting, 174 Perera, Ruth Brinton, 112 purple trail Perimeter Trail, 108 Blue Mountain Reservation, 261 Philipsburg Manor, 28 Cranberry Lake History Trail, 212 Philipse Manor Country Club, 325 Sunny Ridge Preserve, 102 Pierson Park, 326 Putnam Line, 120 Pine Croft Meadow Preserve, 45, 84 Pine Lake, 235 Quakers, 80 Pine Terrace Preserve, 89 quarry Piney Woods Preserve, 393 Cranberry Lake Preserve, 210 Pinecliff Sanctuary, 12-13 Mohegan Granite, history, 106 Plateau-Hastings Beautification Committee, Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park, 329 374 Platt, Helen Choate and Geoffrey, 18 Quarry Ridge Trail, 150 , 94, 95, 337-338 Quinby family property, 59 Playland Lake, 95 Playland Parkway, 398 raptors, watching, 205 Pleasantville Raven Rock, 305 Graham Hills Park, 216-218 Ravendale Woods, 140 Hardscrabble Wilderness Area, 134-137 Ravine Trail, 227 Nannahagen Park, 405 Read, Edith, 95 North County Trailway, 363-365 Read Wildlife Sanctuary, 94-95 Pocantico Lake Park, 279 Red Maple Swamp, 405 Pocantico River, 28, 30, 268, 370 Red Oak Trail, 150-151 Pocantico River Trail, 268, 275 red trail Pond Loop Trail, 112 Blue Mountain Reservation, 261-262 Pond Trail, 165-166 Burden Preserve, 51 Poor, Alice Lane, 40 Butler Memorial Sanctuary, 201-202 Port Chester, 46, 398 Clark Preserve, 21 Potomac River, 106 Cranberry Lake Preserve, 211-212 Pound Ridge Eugene and Agnes Meyer Preserve, 226

422 WALKABLE WESTCHESTER Gedney Park, 121-122 Eagle Hill Summit Trail, 275 Glazier Arboretum, 60 East of Route 448 Area, 277-279 Graham Hills Park, 218 Farm Meadow Trail, 271 Hardscrabble Wilderness Area, 135-136 Gory Brook Road Trail, 275 Hart’s Brook Park and Preserve, 63 history, 273 Koegel Park, 32 Nature’s Way, 272 Lasdon Park & Arboretum, 154 Old Railroad Bed, 272 Montrose Point State Forest, 38-39 Old Sleepy Hollow Road Trail, 272 Mount Holly Preserve, 130-131 Overlook Trail, 272 Mountain Lakes Park, 236 Peaceful Path, 272 Muscoot Farm, 241 Peggy’s Way, 275 Reis Park, 43 Pocantico River Trail, 275-276 Sluder Nature Preserve, 98 Ridge Trail, 272 Sunny Ridge Preserve Spook Rock Trail, 276 northern, 102 Stone Barns Center for Food and southern, 103 Agriculture, 279 Warburg Park, 109 Swan Lake Area, 270-273 Ward Acres Park, 188 Witch’s Spring Trail, 276 Ward Pound Ridge, 303-306 Rockefeller, William, 167 Whippoorwill Park, 190 Rockshelter Preserve, 44-45 red-blue trail, 20-21 Rockwood estate, 167 Reformed Church of Tarrytown, 30 Rockwood Hall, 167-170 Reid, Whitelaw, 404 history of, 167 Reis Park, 42-43 Rockwood Hall Brook Trail, 170 Revolutionary War, 141, 142, 143, 216, 391 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 258 Battle of Merritt Hill, 174 Rose, Adam, 44 Battle of White Plains, 174 Rose, Frederick P., 44 Reynal Crosssing, 47 Rose Nature Preserve, 44-45, 146 Ridge Road Park, 65 green trail, 44-45 Ridge Trail, 227-228, 272-273 Rosenberg, Bessie and James, 107 Ridge Walk, 93 Rowley’s Bridge Trail, 329-330 Ridge/Valley Loop, 108, 109 Rubin’s Trail, 115 Ridgeway Nature Preserve, 13 Ruth Keeler Memorial Library, see Keeler Ridgeway Station, 47 Memorial Library River Ridge Equestrian Center, 353 Rye River Trail, 22-23 Marshlands Conservancy, 74-75 River View Trail, 88 Oakland Beach, 337 RiverWalk, 38, 124, 125 Playland, 337-338 northbound, 125 Read Wildlife Sanctuary, 94-95 southbound, 125-126 Rye Nature Center, 96-97 Rochroane, 7 Rye Beach, 337 Rock Pass Trail, 66-67 Rye Town Park, 337 Rockefeller, John D., 167, 273 Rye Brook Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 56, 167, 273 Crawford Park, 3-4 Rockefeller, Laurence, 167 Rye Hills Park, 3-4 Rockefeller State Park Preserve, 167, 170, 257, Rye Hills Park, 3-4 268-279, 366, 370 stone story circle, 3 13 Bridges Loop, 273-274 Rye Nature Center, 96-97 Ash Tree Loop, 270 Rye Town Park, 95, 337 Big Tree Trail, 274-275, 370 Brook Trail, 270 St. John’s Riverside Hospital, 72 Brother’s Path, 270, 271 St. Matthew’s Church Woodlands, 171-173, David’s Loop, 271 390 Deer Run, 271 St. Paul’s Chapel, 13-14 Eagle Hill Area, 273-276 Salem Center

INDEX 423 Durand Tract and Nature Center, 401 Simpson, Kelly and Marilyn, 198 Keeler Tract, 402 Sing Sing Correctional Facility, 325, 368 Sarah’s Point (Teller’s Point), 213 Sisters of Mercy Convent, 373 Satin, Shelly, 90 Siwanoy, 80 Save Turkey Mountain Committee, 181 Sleepy Hollow Audubon Society, 12, 87, 91 Horseman’s Trail, 28-29 , 53 Kingsland Point Park, 325-326 Saxon Forest, 280 Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park, Saxon Woods Park, 280-286, 357, 393, 404 369, 371 Colonial Greenway, 285-286 Rockefeller State Park Preserve, 268-279 Hutchinson River Pathway, 282-283 Rockwood Hall, 167-170 Loop #1, 283 Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, 28, 29-30, 370, 404 Mamaroneck Avenue Trail, 283 Sleepy Hollow Greenway, 28 Northern Section, 280-283 Sloane, Margaret, 78 Saxon Woods Trail, 283 Sloane, William II, 78 Southern Section, 283-286 Sluder Nature Preserve, 98-99 White Trail, 280-282 Snake Hill Trail, 266 Saxon Woods Trail, 283 Somers Saxton, William, 280 Angle Fly Preserve, 405 Scarsdale Koegel Park, 32-33 Butler Woods, 405 Lasdon Park, Arboretum & Veterans Bronx River Pathway, 347-348 Memorial, 152-156 Colonial Greenway, 393-397 Muscoot Farm, 239-242 Greenburgh Nature Center, 24-25 Muscoot River, 156 Hutchinson River Pathway, 351-352 North County Trailway, 362 Red Maple Swamp, 405 Reis Park, 42-43 Saxon Woods Park, 280-286 Somers Library, 42 Weinberg Nature Center, 286 South County Trailway, 178, 379-385 Scarsdale Golf Course, 25 invasive species, 381 Scenic Hudson Park, 327 South Main Trail, 164 Scenic Hudson Land Trust, 141, 327 Sparkle Lake Park, 15 Scotts Corners, 89 Speegle, Doug and Kim, 393 Scrimshaw House, 330 Split Rock Spring, 113, 114 Sculpture Garden at PepsiCo, 14-15 Split Rock Trail, 222 Giant Trowel II, 15 Spook Rock Trail, 268, 276 Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 104 Sportsman Center, 341 Senesqua Park, 323 Sprain Ridge Park, 243-246 Sentry Ridge Trail, 256 Boyce Thompson Lane, 244-245 Seven Springs, 224 Danny Way Ramble, 244 Shadow Lake Trail, 293-294 Eric’s Over the Log Trail, 244 Shanarock Farm, 2 history, 243 Shannon Stables, 391 North Brothers Loop, 245-246 Sheldrake Environmental Center, 35, 357 Sprain Slick Rock Trail, 245 Sheldrake River, 35, 36 Sprain Slick Rock Trail, 245 Sheldrake River Trails Conservation Area, 357, Sprout Brook, 141 359 Sprout Brook Landfill, 142 Shelly’s Walk, 89, 90 Spruce Camp, 234 Shirley Elbert Memorial, 31 Spruce Hill Trail, 256 Shoreline Trail, 322 spring peepers, 108 Shoumatoff, Nicholas, 251 Spy, The, 394 Shrub Oak Spy Rock Trail, 310 Yorktown Trailway, 386-387 Starin, John H., 331 sidewalk, walking on, 404 Stern family, 12 Silver Lake Park, 4 Stokes-Greene Estate, 22 Silver Lake Preserve, 174-177 Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture,

424 WALKABLE WESTCHESTER 279 Waterfall Trail, 294 Stone, Edward Durrell, 14 Wildflower Island, 290 Stonegate Park, 405 Tellers Point, 213 Stony Hill Cemetery, 174, 173 Teller, William and Sarah, 213 Straus, Nathan, III, 210 Third Church of Bedford, 251 Streambed Steps, 247 Thompson, Boyce, 29, 243 Studwell Foundation, 85 Park, 178-179, 375, 376, 377 Sugar Pond, 138 Tilden, Samuel, 70, 72 Sunny Ridge Preserve, 100-103 Tippet, George, 178 Sunnyfield Farm, 391 Tomahawk Chapel, 32, 33 Sunnyside, 372 Toms Cabin, 247 Sunset Rock, 201 Trailside Museum, 311 Swamp Loop Trail, 19 Truman Administration, 116 Swamp Maple Trail, 144, 146 Trump State Park, 405 Swamp View Trail, 93 Trust for Public Land (TPL), 38, 54 Swan Lake, 268, 270-273 Tuckahoe Swope, Gerard, Sr., 287 Bronx River Pathway, 349 Sylvan Brook, 105 tulip tree, 19 Sylvan Brook Trail, 106 Tulip Tree Heights, 247 Sylvan Glen Park Preserve, 104-106 Tulip Tree Trail, 88 Grant Lookout Trail, 105 Turkey Mountain Nature Preserve, 180-182 High Quarry Trail, 105-106 Turkey Trail, 114 quarry, history, 106 Turtle Pond Trail, 105 Sylvan Brook Trail, 105-106 Tuxedo Park, 234 Turtle Pond Trail, 105 Twin Lakes Farm, 183 Sylvia Stein Nature Trail, 25 Twin Lakes Park, 183-185, 353, 393 Colonial Greenway, 183-184 Commission, 107 Hutchinson River Pathway, 184-185 Tappan Zee Bridge, 215, 325, 327 Tarrytown Underhill, Harriet, 81 Glenville Woods Park Preserve, 54-56 Underhill, Robert, 213 Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park, Underhill, William, 213 371-372 Unification Church, 372 Pierson Park, 326 Union Church Cemetery, 32 Tarrytown Lakes Park, 56 Untermyer Performing Arts Council, 72 Tarrytown Lighthouse, 325 Untermyer Park, 70, 71, 72-73, 375 Taxter Ridge, 405 Grecian Gardens, 72 Teatown Untermyer Performing Arts Council, 72 Briarcliff Peekskill Trailway, 340 Untermyer, Samuel, 72 Hand Park, 132-133 Upland Trail, 142 Teatown Lake Reservation, 132, 287-296 Upper Trail, 170 Teatown Lake Reservation, 132, 287-296 Upper Loop Trail, 173 Back 40 Trail, 290-291 Upper Red Trail, 37 Briarcliff Peekskill Trailway, 291 Urban Wildlife Sanctuary, 96 Catamount Hill Trail, 295-296 utility rights-of-way, 405 Cliffdale Farm, 294-296 Cliffdale Loop Trail, 296 V. Everit Macy Park, see Macy Park Cliffdale-Teatown Trail, 294-295 Valhalla Hidden Valley Trail, 291-292 Bronx River Reservation, 344 Hilltop Trail, 292 Cranberry Lake Preserve, 208-212 Nature Center, 287-288 Stonegate Park, 405 Northwest Trail, 292-293 Van Brunt family, 148 Lakeside Trail, 288-290 Van Cortlandt, Jacobus, 178 Overlook Trail, 293 Van Cortlandt Manor, 82, 148, 258, 287 Shadow Lake Trail, 293-294 , 178, 377

INDEX 425 Van Cortlandt, Stephanus, 148 Leatherman, legend, 309 Van Kirk, Norman, 106 Leatherman’s Loop, 309-310 Van Tassel Park, 42 Luquer-Marble Memorial Garden, 297 Valley Brook Trail, 144-145 Orange Trail, 310 Veery Trail, 256 Mill Pond Trail, 310 Vernal Pond Trail, 66-67 Red Trail, 303-306 Vernal Pool Trail, 142, 143 Spy Rock Trail, 311 vernal pools, 263 Trailside Nature Museum, 297 Vernay, Arthur R., 287 unmarked roads, 313-314 Verplanck White Trail, 312-313 Shoreline Trail, 322 Wheeler Trail, 311 Vietnam Memorial Committee, Lasdon Park Yellow Trail, 311-312 & Arboretum, 152 Ward, Robert, 186 Vietnam Veterans of America, Westchester Ward, William B., 186 Chapter, 152 Ward, William L., 301 Villa Lenaro, 372 Waring, John T., 72 Village of Croton Trail, 115 Warren Institute, 148 Vista Washington, General George, 7 Leon Levy Preserve, 157-159 Washington Post, 224 Old Church Lane Preserve, 11-12 Waterfall Trail, 294 Onatru Farm Park and Preserve, 40-41 Waterline Trail, 222-223 St. Paul’s Chapel, 13-14 Wedge Wall Rock, 247 Weinberg Nature Center, 286, 393 W & J Sloane Home Furnishings Store, 78 West Rumbrook Park, 5 Waccabuc Westchester Community Block Grant, 12 Five Ponds Trail, 5-6 Westchester County, Department of Parks, 78 Frederick P. Rose Nature Preserve, 44-45 Westchester County, Department of Planning, Long Pond Preserve, 85 66 Old Field Preserve, 82-84 Westchester Joint Waterworks, 35, 36 Pine Croft Meadow Preserve, 84 Westchester Land Trust, 2, 6, 9, 12, 26, 83, 247 Waccabuc River, 82 Westchester Wilderness Walk, 247-250 Walker, Madame C.J., 372 Central Roundabout, 248 Wallace Pond, 163 East Loop, 248-249 Waller, Wilhelmine Kirby, 7 North Loop, 249-250 Nation, 80 South Loop, 247-248 Warberg, Felix, 107 Zofnass Family Preserve, 247 Warburg Park, 107-109 Westmoreland Sanctuary, 251-256, 390 Ward Acres Park, 37, 46, 186-189, 357, 393 BRLA Loop, 253 Ward Baking Company, 186 BRLA Trail to Fox Lane, 253 Ward, Ethel, 186 Brookside Trail, 253 Ward, Jack, 186 Catbird Trail, 254 Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, 20, 84, 260, Chickadee Trail, 254 297-314 Coles Kettle Trail, 254 Art in the Park, 297 Easy Loop, 251 Bear Rock Trail, 306 Fox Run Trail, 255 Boone Trail, 313-314 Hemlock Trail, 255 Brown Trail, 300-302 Laurel Trail, 255 Castle Rock Trail, 306 Lost Pond Trail, 255 Deer Hollow Trail, 302-303 Sentry Ridge Trail, 256 Fox Hill Trail, 306-307 Spruce Hill Trail, 256 Green Trail, 307 Veery Trail, 256 history, 299, 301 Wood Thrush Trail, 256 Honey Hollow Trail, 307 Weston Institute, 148 Indian Rock Shelter Trail, 307 wetlands, 296 Laurel Trail, 308-309 wheelchair, all-terrain availability (Larchmont

426 WALKABLE WESTCHESTER Reservoir), 35 Yarrow, Marion, 127 Wheeler Trail, 311 Yarrow Preserve, 127-130 Whippoorwill Park, 61, 190-193 Bass Trail, 129 White Oak Trail, 18 Falls Trail, 127, 129 White Plains Grierson Tail, 129-130 Bronx River Pathway, 346 Hickory Trail, 129 Colonial Greenway, 350-352 Lake Trail, 127-129 Hutchinson River Pathway, 350-351 Maple Trail, 127 Ridgeway Nature Preserve, 13 Meadow Trail, 128 White Plains Greenway, 13, 46-47, 183 yellow trail White Plains Greenway, 13, 46-47, 183 Betsy Sluder Nature Preserve, 99 White, Shelby, 157 Blue Mountain Reservation (north from white trail parking lot), 263 Burden Preserve, 51 Butler Memorial Sanctuary, 204 Blue Mountain Reservation, 262 Cranberry Lake Preserve, 208-210 Franklin-Fels Nature Sanctuary, 58 Eugene and Agnes Meyer Preserve, 224-225 Graham Hills Park, 218 Franklin-Fels Nature Sanctuary, 58 Hardscrabble Wilderness Area, 136-137 Gedney Park, 123 Koegel Park, 32 Glazier Arboretum, 61 Lenoir Preserve, 71 Glenville Woods Park Preserve, 55-56 Leon Levy Preserve, 157 Graham Hills Park, 218 Muscoot Farm, 241-242 Hardscrabble Wilderness Area, 136 Saxon Woods Park, 280-282 Hart’s Brook Park and Preserve, 63 Silver Lake Preserve, 174-177 Koegel Park, 33 Sunny Ridge Preserve, 100-101 Lasdon Park & Arboretum, 154 Turkey Mountain Nature Preserve, 182 Leon Levy Preserve, 159 Warburg Park, 109 Merestead, 79 Ward Acres Park, 189 Montrose Point State Forest, 39 Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, 312-313 Mountain Lakes Park, 238 Whippoorwill Park, 192 Muscoot Farm, 239-241 Whitestone Bridge, 104 Reis Park, 42 Wicker’s Creek, 373 Silver Lake Preserve, 173-174 William B. Ward Elementary School, 37, 186 Sunny Ridge Preserve, 103 Winter Route, 126 Turkey Mountain Nature Preserve, 182 Wishnie Park, 405 Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, 311-312 Witch’s Spring Trail, 268, 276 Whippoorwill Park, 193 WMCA radio station, 210 yellow-blue trail, 21 Wolf Conservation Center, 83 yellow disk trail, 263 Wood Thrush Trail, 256 yellow/orange trail, 263-264 Woodfrog Pond, 25 yellow-red trail, 21 Woodlands Commission, 171 Yonkers Woodlands Lake, 379, 382 Esplanade Park, 330 Woodlands Park (V. Everit Macy Park), 219 Lenoir Preserve, 70-72 Woods, Fernando, 148 Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park, Woods House, 148 375 woolly adelgid, 26, 226 Sprain Ridge Park, 243-246 World War II, 106 Tibbetts Brook Park, 178-179 Works Progress Administration (WPA), 65 Untermyer Park, 70, 72-73 Wright-Reis, Carolyn, 42 Yonkers North Hudson Promenade, 330 Wykagl Yonkers North Hudson Promenade, 330 Larchmont Reservoir-James G. Johnson, Jr. Yonkers Sculpture Meadow, 330 Conservancy, 34-37 Yorktown Colonial Greenway, 188-189 Hilltop Hanover Fram and Environmental Center, 66-67 Yale University, 44 North County Trailway, 362

INDEX 427 Sparkle Lake Park, 15 Trump State Park, 405 Yorktown High School, 119 Yorktown Heights Turkey Mountain Nature Preserve, 180- 182 Yorktown Museum, 360 Yorktown Trailway, 386-387 Youth Conservation Corps, 76 Hilltop Hanover Farm and Environmental Center, 66-67

Zeeview, 372 Zofnass Family Preserve, see Westchester Wilderness Walk Zofnass, Paul, 247 Zwick Fitness Trail, 89

428 WALKABLE WESTCHESTER