map not Mills-Norrie State Park Pinewoods & Hackett Hill Parks to scale Please remember! • Stay on the trail. Respect the rights of generous To Rt. 9 Golf Mill St. landowners who have granted permission to Staatsburgh Staatsburgh Course State Historic Site Golf Course E cross their land. ★ a State Historic Site Connector ★ s (Mills Mansion) t

i vP i M Woodland • Park only in designated areas. a Trail vP r k • Trails are open dawn to dusk. If your car is left in e Gorilla t Rock Trail S a parking area after dark, it could get locked in t r Nature e Guinea . e overnight. Trail t Community Trail K • Carry out what you carry in. vP River Skate Crum Trail Park C Fredonia Ln • Fires are not allowed. r Elbow eet u i Str Mills-Norrie State Park m Trail et rk K E v a • Do not remove plants, wildlife or artifacts. l P M n ★Staatsburg Hamlet b st Rt. 9G vP Ball o Ea To w • All trails are open to foot travel. No motorized Campground★ vP Field C re e vehicles. k

★Norrie Point Marina 500 Ft. ewoods Rd. Norrie Point 9 Pin v Old Post Road Environmental ★P Key Winnakee Nature Preserve Center Trailhead

2000 Ft. Trailhead with Kiosk Home of FDR K Campground ★ National Historic Site Old Carriage Trail vP Parking Norrie Point Marina★ Beech Trail 9 i Visitor Information FDR Drive To Vanderbilt Forest Loop Trail Spicebush Path ★ Place of Interest Norrie Point vP i v d Environmental ★ P a o Hyde Park Trail Center R ★ FDR Home, m a

HUDSON RIVER Library & D Other Trails n a Creek Trail Museum V Unmarked Trail 9 vP Body of Water Vanderbilt Mansion K National Historic Site Meadow 9 Road Cove Trail 1000 Ft. Bard Rock★ Trail Vanderbilt Col Rogers Loop Trail Mansion N.H.S. 500 Ft. vP i Bard Rock★ Pinewoods vP Hackett K Post Office Park Hill Park ★ 9 Terwilliger Rd. 1000 Ft. Historic Town Hall ★ Roosevelt Farm & Forest Train Library★ 41 Station★ i vP vP i vP vP ★Hyde Park Drive-In ★Vanderbilt Mansion Theater Riverfront ll i National Historic Site Park Winnakee Nature Preserve K Bracken Trail vP vP K Maritje ★ vP Garden★ Top 9G Post Office ★ Cottage Val-Kill 9G 9G ★ i Top Cottage Town Hall★ Newbold Trail Trail vP vP Roosevelt i Eleanor Historic 9 vP Farm Library★ Railroad Cr F.D.R. Home, Roosevelt N.H.S. ee & Forest ★ Station ★ vP k Road Library 9 Top Eleanor’s Walk 1000 Ft. Roosevelt Farm Lane & Museum vP i Cottage vP Riverfront vP K Park 1000 Ft. 40A To FDR planted over a half million trees on his property. Visits to the Ab o u t Hy d e Pa r k Tr a i l s site begin at the Henry A. Wallace Visitor Center. Ge n e r a l In f o r m a t i o n Walk Safely Dozens of trails thread through the town of Eleanor Roosevelt’s home, Val-Kill, is where she wrote, found • Some trails cross public roads, or even run along them. Hyde Park, linking parks, preserves, historic quiet solace, enjoyed family activities, and entertained leaders Obey all traffic laws and BE CAREFUL. from around the world. Eleanor was the author of the United sites and more. Some trails follow wide and Nations “Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” Eleanor’s • Use of trails is at your own risk. Surfaces may be rough, uneven, wet or slippery. Use appropriate footwear. gentle woods roads left by generations of farms Walk is a loop trail which Eleanor often walked. • Poison ivy is common along the trail. (NOTE: include and estates. Others are true hiking trails that Top Cottage is the hilltop retreat FDR built in 1938 to photo or line-art image?) “escape the mob.” The trail to Top Cottage begins at Val-Kill. • Stay off of railroad tracks. can be narrow and steep. In-between are No private vehicles are permitted, but a seasonal shuttle bus is operated from the FDR site. • Drinking water is not available along the trails. Be sure to sidewalks and linkages to neighborhoods and bring your own. businesses. A single trail may weave together Vanderbilt National Historic Site showcases the mansion • Lyme disease is spread by black-legged ticks. Avoid brush- scenic views, woodlands, gardens, Hudson of railroad industrialist and philanthropist Frederick W. ing against vegetation where they live. Use insect repellant Vanderbilt, along with its elaborate gardens. Nearby, the trail on clothing, and tuck pants into socks to avoid tick bites. Valley history and healthy physical activity. skirts a bluff with famous views of the Hudson and Catskills. Learn more at www.stopticks.org

The logo of the Hyde Park Trail is the leaf Mills-Norrie State Park was donated to the state in the 1930’s Become a trail volunteer of the tulip tree (Liriodenron tulipifera), and hosted a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp. The The Hyde Park Trails are YOURS. We welcome individuals, Hyde Park Trails which was a particular favorite of FDR. CCC was a work relief program for young men, established groups and families to help us grow and sustain the Hyde Our other trails are marked with color- as part of FDR’s during the Great Depression. Park Trails. Here are some ways we can help you meet new coded blazes painted on trees. Staatsburgh State Historic Site is highlighted by the Beaux- people, learn new skills and have lots of fun: Arts mansion and grounds to the State in 1938. Its lawn The Hyde Park Trail Committee has sweeps to the river’s edge, and trails radiate through rolling • Adopt a Trail - Keep a trail well-marked and free of brush worked since 1988 to build and maintain woodlands. The trail from here to Norrie Point is the only • Build a Trail - Help maintain trail signs, benches and ki- these trails for local residents and visitors alike. Since its major trail in Hyde Park which leads directly along the bank osks, or build new trails beginning, the Hyde Park Trail has grown from a single link of the Hudson. • Programs & promotion - Help organize walks, events or between the FDR and Vanderbilt Sites into a trail system with public outreach links to Val-Kill, Top Cottage, Pinewoods and Hackett Hill Facing the Parks, and the Winnakee Land Trust’s Nature Preserve. • Do you have a special skill or interest? There’s probably a The Hudson River has role for you. been the lifeblood of Designated a Hudson River Valley Greenway Trail in 1992 the Valley since before • Call Hyde Park Recreation at 229-8086, and we will help and a National Recreation Trail in 2006, the long term goal is history, providing food, you find a role. to extend the trail north and south along the Hudson River to water and transport. It connect with to Rhinebeck and Poughkeepsie. is a tidal estuary, known Hyde Park Railroad Station to Algonquian-speaking A legacy of great estates natives as “Muhheakantuck,” translated as “the river that flows The Franklin D. Roosevelt Home, Library & Museum pre- both ways.” Since Colonial times, the Hyde Park riverfront serves the legacy of America’s only four-term President. The has been used for shipping, boatbuilding, a prolific sturgeon trails follow woods roads, highlighted in places by forest plan- fishery and a level route for the railroad. The river itself is a tations established by FDR. Between 1912 and 1945, FDR trail; the Hudson River Water Trail provides dozens of access points for paddlers between City and Albany. Lydia Frank, Courtesy Hudson Valley Railroad Society Frank, Courtesy Hudson Valley Lydia For more information: The heritage of our hills www.hydeparkny.us/recreation/trails Stone walls built for the roads and farms of previous genera- 845-229-8086. tions still cross many Hyde Park neighborhoods, woodlands and trails. Rocky knolls and wetlands made farming difficult, but provided streams and waterfalls that were harnessed for water-powered mills. In one part of town, today’s trail follows a road that housed a thriving African American community Trails are good for health. Please see our “Hyde Park in the 1790s. In another, a boggy pond was excavated in the Healthy Trails Walkabout Brochure” year 2000, to yield the skeleton of a mastodon that lived some www.hydeparkny.us/recreation/trails 11,500 years ago. These and many other stories continue to enrich Hyde Park’s landscape and community. This brochure was funded in part by a federal Recreational Trails Program grant administered by New York State Office of Parks, Great trails to great places Recreation and Historic Preservation.