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In This Issue: Mobile-Optimized Cycling the Erie PTNY Enews: Mobile -optimized Canalway Trail site goes live Page 1 of 8 Having trouble viewing this email? Click here In this issue: July 2013 • Mobile-optimized Cycling the Erie Canal interactive map goes live • 15th anniversary Cycling the Erie Canal in the books • Arthur V. Savage Internship Program • PTNY Park Friends technical assistance program kicks off Celebrating more than • From shabby to chic: upgrades come to a state 25 years of advocacy for park near you • PTNY Growing the Grassroots grants at work New York's parks and • Become a Canalway Trail adopter trails • PTNY members win stays at historic park hotels • Celebrate this month's Green Partner - Con Edison • Kingston becoming trail hub • Final and draft master plans released for Trailfinder Trail of several state parks the Month Protection of Palisades viewshed gets boost Mobile-optimized Cycling the Erie Canal interactive map goes live Now, plan your trip by desktop or smartphone Sodus-Wallington Rail Parks & Trails New York is Trail pleased to introduce an optimized version of our interactive Erie The historic Sodus-Wallington Canalway Trail map, first Rail Trail runs along an old developed in 2008, which is railroad bed in Wayne County, designed to function on both following the Sodus Point Line desktop PCs and smartphones. which was chartered in 1852 and eventually became a The map has better search through route from Lewistown to functions, added attractions and Oswego. This flat and very points of interest, a new accessible three-mile trail in measuring tool, GPS, and an western New York is great for easier- to-operate user interface. strollers or bikes and offers an Visit the new and improved easy way to get from Wallington Canalway Trail map and start to some summer fun at Lake planning your adventure today! Ontario;s Sodus Point Beach! file:///C:/Users/cgriffin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/QABIPSWR.htm 9/ 2/ 2015 PTNY Enews: Mobile -optimized Canalway Trail site goes live Page 2 of 8 Check out the Sodus-Wallington 15th anniversary Cycling the Erie Canal Rail Trail and more of NY's multi-use trails on PTNY's in the books TrailFinder . Parks & Trails New York in the field PTNY project director Martin Daley visited the Delaware County town of Andes and the Sullivan County town of Fallsburg to install boxes for trail user surveys and see the results More than 500 riders from 36 states, ages 4 through 89, of spring trail work in both participated in Parks & Trails New York's 15th anniversary communities. The surveys will Cycling the Erie Canal bike tour July 7-14. Along the way, be used in conjunction with trail cyclists enjoyed some of the finest scenery, most interesting user counts to provide a better history, and unparalleled cycling in the northeastern United idea of who is using the trail, States. how often, and the impact the trail is having on trail users' About three-quarters of the tour is on the off-road Erie health. Canalway Trail. When the gaps in the trail are closed, it will be the longest statewide trail in the country. Check out the latest issue of Check out some pics from the tour and some of the press Canalway Trail Times coverage . Arthur V. Savage Internship Help support a new generation of environmental leaders To honor the life and legacy of one of New York State's most influential environmentalists, Parks & Trails New York is proud to announce the Arthur V. Savage Internship Meet trail adopters from Fort Program. Plain, get a behind the scenes view of Cycling the Erie Canal, Arthur V. Savage (1926- and learn more about what's 2012) was a distinguished happening along the Canalway lawyer-conservationist, with a particular devotion to the Trail in the latest issue of preservation of open spaces and public parks in New York Canalway Trail Times . file:///C:/Users/cgriffin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/QABIPSWR.htm 9/ 2/ 2015 PTNY Enews: Mobile -optimized Canalway Trail site goes live Page 3 of 8 State. During the last half of the 20 th century, Art co-founded Save the date: Nov 13 - PTNY's or led a large number of nonprofit organizations that shape annual reception environmental laws, protect natural resources, and educate the public about conservation values. Parks & Trails New York's annual Award Reception will A 20-year member of the Parks & Trails New York Board of take place Wednesday, Directors, Art received our George W. Perkins Award in 2003 November 13, 2013, at theThe for his outstanding parks and conservation leadership. University Club in NYC. The Internship Program will offer an opportunity for We are pleased to bestow our undergraduates, graduate students, and recent graduates with George W. Perkins award to degrees in environmental studies to work in Albany with the several worthy recipients: PTNY staff to shape environmentally intelligent policies, organize grassroots constituents and provide stewardship for Citigbank, N.A. for their parks, trails, and other outdoor recreational facilities. exemplary commitment to New York through their investment in Please help continue Arthur's legacy by supporting a new the widely successful Citi Bike generation of environmental leaders through the Arthur V. program. Savage Internship Program. Click here to donate to the Internship Program. Commissioner Janette Sadik- Khan for her extraordinary For more information contact Tiffany Soricelli at 518-434-1583 leadership in transforming New or [email protected] . York's streets and improving the city's physical, social and economic environment. PTNY Park Friends technical Four Freedoms Park assistance program kicks off Conservancy for its dedication to creating a beautiful and Earlier this month, PTNY Park Program Director Laura DiBetta meaningful green space on met with the two groups selected for the inaugural year of the Roosevelt Island which has NYS Park Friends Technical Assistance Program : the Friends recently become New York's of Philipse Manor Hall in Yonkers and Friends of Caleb Smith newest state park. Preserve on Long Island. We hope you'll join us! The meeting with the Friends of Philipse Manor Hall included a Guides to summer cycling fun! tour of the surrounding neighborhood in the heart of downtown Yonkers, the recently daylighted Saw Mill River (photo) and Van der Donck Park. Park Manager Clarence Ware Philipse Manor, once a home to provided a tour of the bucolic British Loyalists Caleb Smith Park Preserve, a haven for fishing enthusiasts and nature lovers, before the evening's Friends meeting. Looking for something exciting PTNY will be working with both Friends groups on to do this summer? Why not communications, fundraising planning, and board cycle through New York using development to strengthen their organizations and ultimately our Cycling the Erie Canal and their efforts in support of these two treasured places. Cycling the Hudson Valley guidebooks. These books, along with our on-line interactive Erie Canalway Trail map , can take you through some of New York's file:///C:/Users/cgriffin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/QABIPSWR.htm 9/ 2/ 2015 PTNY Enews: Mobile -optimized Canalway Trail site goes live Page 4 of 8 most beautiful and historic From shabby to chic: upgrades come locations. You can find things to do, places to stay, and more to a state park near you when you flip through the pages of these popular guidebooks. State Parks has been busy Purchase your copies today! putting to good use the sorely needed capital funding included in the last Annual Canalway Trail count two state budgets. taking place in Albion and At Niagara Falls State Brockport Park , ribbon was cut on three major projects that will enhance the visitor This summer the annual experience, including new Canalway Trail count will be pedestrian walkways at Luna Island (pictured), new high- conducted in the western New speed elevators at Cave of the Winds, and new views at Three York communities of Albion and Sisters Islands. Read more and check out this Flickr photo Brockport. Volunteers will be album . tallying the number and types of trail users as well as surveying At Ganondagan State Historic Site , $1 million in NY Works trail users to learn more about Funding will go towards the Seneca Art & Culture Center , a how, why, and when they visit year-round educational and cultural destination scheduled to the trail and how much they open in 2014. Thanks to this funding, the Center will now spend. If you're interested in include some of the enhanced features in its original plans, helping with the event contact including a geothermal well for sustainable, energy-efficient us . heating and cooling and roll out theater seating. I Love My Park Day volunteer Allegany State Park also wins camping gift prize debuted a new and improved Group 5 Camp (pictured). Despite being one of the most popular group camping areas in the system, the 90-year- old cabins at Group Camp 5 had fallen into an extreme state of disrepair. The $733,000 project enabled replacement of the deteriorated cabins, construction of a modern bathroom, As the winner of a drawing of renovations to the central mess hall and access improvements those who registered online by for people with disabilities in all areas of the camp. April 22 for I Love My Park Day, Joyce Cornell won a $100 Nearly 90 construction projects will begin this year to upgrade camping gift card that will help and repair more than 50 state parks and historic sites across her and her family enjoy New New York. See the full list of projects. York State Parks. Joyce is a music-loving mom PTNY Growing the Grassroots grants who lives in Albany, N.Y.
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