DOCSLIB.ORG

Trail Walker

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Trail Walker Page 2 July/August 2011 www.nynjtc.org The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference Special Report VOLUME XXXVIII, NO.4 JULY /A UGUST 2011 GEORGETTE WEIR EDITOR LOUIS LEONARDIS GRAPHIC DESIGNER ANNUAL REPORT TRAIL WALKER (USPS Permit #970-100) October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010 (ISSN 0749-1352) is published bi-monthly by the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference as a Sterling Forest State Park Wonder Lake State Park Yorktown Community Trails benefit of membership. Subscriptions are available to libraries only at $15.00 a year. Periodical postage paid at Mahwah, N.J., and additional offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to the address below. Opinions expressed by authors do not necessarily represent the policy or position of the Conference. Contributions of typed manuscripts, photos, and drawings are welcome. Manuscripts may be edited for style and length. Send SASE for writers’ guidelines. Submission deadlines for the TRAIL WALKER are January 15 (Mar./Apr. issue), March 15 (May/June issue), May 15 (July/Aug. issue), July 15 (Sept./Oct. issue), September 15 (Nov./Dec. issue), November 15 (Jan./Feb. issue). Unsolicited contributions cannot be Bear Mountain State Park Neversink River Unique Area acknowledged unless accompanied by SASE. For information on advertising rates, please write or call. Copyright 2011 by: New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, Inc. 156 Ramapo Valley Road (Rt. 202) Mahwah, NJ 07430 201-512-9348 e-mail: [email protected] editorial e-mail: [email protected] World Wide Web: www.nynjtc.org tional retooling in the face of the new envi - Where We Work: Marking the ronment, adding a new position of Ninety years after a handful of Trail Con - Development Director to help us secure ference volunteers built their first trail—the First 90 Years funds to advance our ambitions. 20-mile long Ramapo-Dunderberg Trail in By the end of the anniversary year we Harriman State Park—1,342 volunteers in Mission Statement What does a mission-focused organization had made a tough climb over rocky terrain 2,110 volunteer positions on and off trail The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference is a do when it enters its 90th year of opera - to discover a wonderful view. Here are a were keeping more than 1,775 miles of federation of member clubs and individuals tions? If the organization is the Trail few of the highlights: trails in the following parks and preserves dedicated to providing recreational hiking Conference it looks ahead, not back; asserts opportunities in the region, and representing the State parks in New York and New open for public access and enjoyment with interests and concerns of the hiking community. its ambitions, not its retirement plans. Jersey stayed open thanks to almost 70,000 hours of contributed labor. The Conference is a volunteer-directed public Mostly, it keeps doing what it was created service organization committed to: advocacy campaigns PARKS IN NEW YORK PARKS IN NEW JERSEY to do—make public lands accessible to the Alley Pond Park Abram S. Hewitt State • Developing, building, and maintaining We maintained 1,775 miles of trails hiking trails. public—which translates into recruiting Black Rock Forest Forest • Protecting hiking trail lands through and training nature lovers to build trails, Blauvelt State Park Allamuchy Mountain The rebuilt Appalachian Trail State Park support and advocacy. maintain trails, be advocates for trails, and Buttermilk Falls Park opened on Bear Mountain Camp Glen Gray • Educating the public in the responsible make trail maps and information available Catskill Park use of trails and the natural environment. Campgaw Mountain for public use. We published four map sets in new Cheesecote Mountain County Reservation Town Park Board of Directors or revised editions (Harriman, Delaware Water Gap Natl Chris Connolly Chair Clausland Mountain Recreation Area The fiscal year that preceded the one cov - County Park Gaylord Holmes Vice Chair Catskills, West Hudson, and East Farny State Park James Gregoire Treasurer ered in this report was difficult. The Hudson) Fahnestock Memorial Daniel Chazin Secretary State Park Farny-Rockaway State economic recession forced us to cut budg - Park Forest Park Directors ets and programs significantly. We Our Kittatinny Trails map set Flat Rock Brook Nature Robert Boysen Richard Katsive George's Island County Center Jane Daniels Hans Khimm weathered the storm by staying focused on (2009) won a design award from Park Charlotte Fahn George O’Lear Garret Mountain our mission. And we did some organiza - NJ DEP Goose Pond Mountain Reservation Bill Gannett Edward Saiff State Park Ann Gruhn Daniel Van Engel High Point SP/Wallkill Treasurer’s Report Harriman - Bear Natl. Wildlife Refuge Daniel Hoberman projects. Management and general Mountain State Park High Point State Park Staff for Fiscal Year 2010 expenses of $88,327 were down approxi - High Tor State Park Jenny Jump State Forest Edward Goodell Executive Director By Jim Gregoire, Treasurer mately $30,000 from the prior year, while Hook Mountain State Joshua Howard Deputy Executive Park Long Pond Ironworks fundraising and membership expenses State Park Director Hudson Highlands Kevin Melchionne Director of Results for our fiscal year ended September increased by a similar amount, reflecting Gateway Park Mahlon Dickerson Reservation Development 30, 2010 have been audited and an the hiring of a Development Director in Hudson Highlands State Don Weise Development Park Morristown National unqualified opinion dated March 24, mid-year. Historical Park Manager Idlewild Park 2011 has been issued by the Trail Confer - Our net income (a.k.a. “change in net Norvin Green State Forest Joanne Reinhardt Membership Kitchawan Preserve Program Manager ence’s auditors, ABD Associates, LLP. assets”) for the year was down $42,836, Palisades Interstate Park Manitou Point Nature Jeremy Apgar Cartographer Total revenues for the year were bringing total net assets of the organiza - Preserve Pequannock Watershed Leigh Draper East Hudson $1,451,555 consisting principally of tion to $2,843,605 at year-end. Major Minnewaska State Park Pequest Wildlife Program Preserve Management Area Coordinator membership dues and contributions components of net assets are trail lands Montrose Point Preakness Range-High Chris Ingui New Jersey ($997,169); map and book sales and easements ($1,814,421), cash and Mountain Mount Washington State Program ($274,594); and income from various investments ($552,757), and receivables Pyramid Mountain Coordinator Forest trail building contracts ($155,272). This ($158,984). We have also capitalized Mountainview County Ramapo Mountain State Larry Wheelock West Hudson Forest Program revenue is approximately $280,000 lower $634,992 of invested costs of the Dar - Nature Park Coordinator than the previous year, primarily due to lington School House construction Neversink River Unique Ramapo Valley County Area Reservation Jeff Senterman Catskill Program the recording of contributions received in project. Total liabilities of $350,615 Coordinator Nyack Beach State Park Ringwood State Park Catherine Gemmell Database and early 2010 as income and receivable in include a mortgage of $216,000 secured Palisades Interstate Park Rockaway River Wildlife Management Area Volunteer late 2009. against our land assets. That mortgage Pelham Bay Park Administrator Rockleigh Woods Our expenses for the year totaled will be retired with the proceeds of a Roosa Gap State Forest Sanctuary/Lamont Gary Willick Fulfillment Sam's Point Preserve Coordinator $1,494,391, approximately the same as in recent land sale to New York. Additional Reserve the prior fiscal year. Of this amount land assets are under contract for sale to Schunemunk Mountain Spruce Run State Park Georgette Weir Communications State Park Manager $1,125,621 are program-related expenses, New York State for a price of $1,555,100. Stephens State Park South Mountain County Stokes State Forest Melissa Bean Administrative including $204,540 for trail building Park Assistant Swartswood State Park Staten Island Greenbelt Tenafly Nature Center The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference is a Sterling Forest State Park Voorhees State Park volunteer, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. It is Volunteer Contributions by Committee 1/1/10 — 12/31/10 Storm King State Park Wanaque Borough Park a federation of 103 hiking and outdoor groups, Sylvan Glen and 10,000 individuals. Wawayanda State Park Committee Work Hrs Travel Hrs Value * Taconic State Park Worthington State Forest printed on recycled content paper Tallman Mountain State Administrative 4,114 880 $125,849 Park PLEASE RECYCLE TRAIL WALKER Communications 121 9 3,276 Teatown Lake Conservation & Advocacy 1,180 192 $34,574 Reservation Darlington School House 139 15 $3,881 Van Cortlandt Park Ward Pound Ridge Membership/Development 337 119 $11,491 Reservation Follow NYNJTC! Publications 2,687 502 $80,363 West Hook Mountain Technology Committee 1,418 — $35,734 Open Space Trail Builders and Maintainers 41,583 11,396.80 $1,335,091 Wurtsboro Ridge State Volunteer Committee 276 61 $8,492 Forest facebook.com/nynjtc TOTAL 51,855 13,174.80 $1,638,751 Our full Annual Report can be viewed and downloaded twitter.com/NYNJTrailConf *The value of volunteer time presented here is $25.20 - the average wage plus benefits of non-management, online at www.nynjtc.org. non-agricultural workers in New Jersey. www.independentsector.org/volunteer_time.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • S T a T E O F N E W Y O R K 3695--A 2009-2010
    S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3695--A 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 28, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. KOON, McENENY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Tourism, Arts and Sports Development -- recommitted to the Committee on Tour- ism, Arts and Sports Development in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in relation to the protection and management of the state park system THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Legislative findings and purpose. The legislature finds the 2 New York state parks, and natural and cultural lands under state manage- 3 ment which began with the Niagara Reservation in 1885 embrace unique, 4 superlative and significant resources. They constitute a major source of 5 pride, inspiration and enjoyment of the people of the state, and have 6 gained international recognition and acclaim. 7 Establishment of the State Council of Parks by the legislature in 1924 8 was an act that created the first unified state parks system in the 9 country. By this act and other means the legislature and the people of 10 the state have repeatedly expressed their desire that the natural and 11 cultural state park resources of the state be accorded the highest 12 degree of protection.
    [Show full text]
  • Where to Bird in Dutchess County, 3Rd Edition
    WHERE TO BIRD IN DUTCHESS COUNTY Edited by Stan DeOrsey and Adrienne Popko Third Edition Published by The Ralph T. Waterman Bird Club, Inc. Dutchess County, New York January 1, 2016 Photos by Adrienne Popko Copyright 1990, 2016 by Ralph T. Waterman Bird Club, all rights reserved TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 Andrew Haight Road 35 Pawling Nature Reserve 7 Bowdoin Park 36 Pond Gut 8 Brace Mountain 37 Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery 9 Buttercup Farm Wildlife S. 38 Reese Sanctuary 10 Cary Arboretum 39 Rockefeller / Pitcher Lane 11 Cascade Mountain Road 40 Saw Kill & South Bay Trails 12 Cruger Island 41 Skunks Misery Road 13 Deep Hollow Road 42 S. Quaker Hill / Tower Hill Rds 14 Depot Hill MUA 43 Stissing Mountain MUA 15 Edward R Murrow Park 44 Stony Kill Farm Env Ed Center 16 Eleanor Roosevelt NHS 45 Sylvan Lake / Clove Road 17 Ferncliff Forest 46 Taconic-Hereford MUA 18 Flint Hill / Huckleberry Roads 47 Taconic State Park 19 Freedom Park 48 Tamarack Lake & Swamp 20 Home of Franklin Roosevelt NHS 49 Tamarack Preserve 21 Hudson Highlands State Park 50 Thompson Pond Preserve 22 Hudson River - North 51 Tivoli Bays WMA 24 Hudson River - South 52 Tower Hill Road lnnisfree26 53 Tracy Road 27 James Baird State Park 54 Tymor Park 28 Lafayetteville MUA 55 Vanderbilt Mansion NHS 29 Lake Oniad 56 Vassar College 30 Locust Grove Historic Estate 57 Vassar College Farm 31 Millbrook School 58 Wappinger Lake 32 Montgomery Place 59 Wassaic MUA 33 Ogden Mills & Norrie State Park 60 Wilcox Park 34 Oriole Mills / Norton / Yantz Rds - 2 - CROSS REFERENCE OF LOCAL NAMES Many areas in Dutchess County are commonly known by names other than those used in this book.
    [Show full text]
  • RECREATION and PARKS MONTH Welcome to New Jersey's State Parks, Forests and Historic Sites
    PAGE 28 — THURSDAY, JULY 17, 20O8 L0CALS0URCE.COM UNION COUNTY LOCALSOURCE OBITUARIES (Continued from Page 27) Health and Rehabilitation Center, as an engineer for Bell Telephone rank of captain. He is survived by survived by his father, Matthew J. Cranford. Born in lla/eltown. Pa., Laboratories, Murray Hill, for 41 his wife.Vcra; a daughter, Joyce Haupt; mother, Nicole Viilante; Dorothy Kiewlak Mr. Petuck lived in Union since years before retiring in 1971). Domanico; sons Albert Jr. and paternal grandfather, Richard C. Dorothy Kiewlak. 91, of Lin- 1957 before moving to Cranford Mr. Richardson also was the Daniel Rech, and a brother, Haupt; maternal grandmother, den, died July 6 at Delaire Nursing two years ago. owner and manager, with his wife, Richard. Elizabeth McCormick, and many Home, Linden. Mr. Petuck served in the United Florence, of Garrison House The McCracken Funeral Home, relatives. The Mastapeter Funeral Born in Clymer, Pa., Mrs. States Army in World War II. Antiques, Summit, for more than Union, handled the arrangements. Home, Roselle Park, handled the Kiewlak lived in Linden since Before retiring, he worked as a 25 years. He graduated from Iowa arrangements. "1940. She was a former bowler tablet coater with Shering-Plough State University, where he Loretta Kanane Ryan with the Linden Women's Major in Kenilworth. Mr. Petuck was a received a bachelor's degree in Loretta Kanane Ryan, 98, of Mildred Wesp League at Jersey Lanes and a for- member of the Union Masonic physics. Westfield, formerly of Mountain- Mildred Wesp, 79, of Roselle, mer member of Ricketts Bowling Lodge and the First Baptist Church Surviving are two sons, John side, died July 6.
    [Show full text]
  • Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail
    New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQR) DRAFT SCOPING DOCUMENT For a Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement (DGEIS) HUDSON HIGHLANDS FJORD TRAIL Project Location Corridor between City of Beacon and Village of Cold Spring Train Stations Towns of Fishkill and Philipstown Dutchess and Putnam Counties, New York July 6, 2016 SEQR CLASSIFICATION: TYPE 1 LEAD AGENCY: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) Environmental Management Bureau 625 Broadway Albany, NY 12238 LEAD AGENCY Nancy Stoner, Environmental Analyst 1 CONTACT: 518-474-0409 LEAD CONSULTANT: TBD i Lead Agency: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation LIST OF INVOLVED AND INTERESTED AGENCIES: State Agencies/Authorities: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) New York State Department of State (DOS) New York State Office of General Services (NYSOGS) MTA Metro‐North Railroad (Metro‐North) Local Agencies and Interest Groups: New York City Department of Environmental Protection Dutchess County Putnam County Town of Fishkill Town of Philipstown City of Beacon Village of Cold Spring Village of Nelsonville Midtown Trackage Ventures LLC Scenic Hudson Riverkeeper Hudson River Fisherman’s Association Hudson River Foundation National Audubon Society, Audubon New York Hudson River Environmental Society DEC Hudson River Estuary Program Hudson Highlands Land Trust New York‐New Jersey Trail Conference Little Stony
    [Show full text]
  • Biking Challenges in the Nyack River Master Plan Has Three Major Goals
    GREATER The Greater Nyack Bicycle and Pedestrian NYACK Master Plan will address key walking and BIKE biking challenges in the Nyack river PED villages and the school district. MASTER PLAN Strengthens schools Supports healthy and communities lifestyles WHY? Helps improve access Provides an affordable Encouraging to schools, businesses, alternative to driving walking and and other destinations biking... Can reduce traffic congestion and improve air quality Walk or The Greater Nyack Bicycle & Pedestrian bike? Master Plan has three major goals: We want to hear Improve pedestrian and bicyclist safety for all from you! 1 regardless of age, ability, and experience. Improve connections among key destinations for Show us where 2 employment, education, culture, recreation, and it’s unsafe or shopping. uncomfortable to walk and bike using our Provide program recommendations that educate users, target undesirable behaviors, interactive map tool at 3 accommodate individuals with special needs, and NyackBikeWalkSurvey.com improve perceptions of bicycling and walking. or email us at Info@ BikeWalkGreaterNyack.com BikeWalkGreaterNyack.com GREATER NYACK NETWORK & FACILITIES BIKEPED MASTER PLAN DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS Which intersections have recommended safety improvements? Recommendation Details Potential Champion 1 North Midland Improve safety for pedestrians and bicyclists by realigning the Village of Upper Nyack Avenue & Old intersection and add facilities such as an RRFB and crosswalks. Mountain Road 2 South Implement zigzag pavement markings Village of South Nyack Broadway & and other traffic calming strategies to Esposito Trail slow northbound vehicles approaching trail crossing. 3 South Franklin Add curb extensions to narrow crossing distance and provide Village of Nyack Street & Depew bus bulbs to improve transit accessibility.
    [Show full text]
  • NY Rising Infrastructure Program POLICY and PROCEDURE MANUAL
    NY Rising Infrastructure Program POLICY AND PROCEDURE MANUAL Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of New York State Jamie Rubin, Commissioner/CEO, New York State Homes and Community Renewal Lisa Bova-Hiatt, Executive Director, Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery November 2016 Version 2.1 Prepared by: Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery New York State Homes and Community Renewal Housing Trust Fund Corporation Office of Community Renewal The procedures stated in this manual are current as of November 2016. This manual represents the current version of the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery’s (GOSR) procedure which shall provide general guidance for the operation of the GOSR Program. All policy and procedure manuals will be reviewed periodically and will be updated to reflect the current needs and operation of the GOSR Program. GOSR will use its best efforts to keep all of its Policy and Procedure Manuals, as well as its Human Resources Policy Manual current. There may be times, however, when a policy or procedure will change before the manual can be revised. Therefore, you are strongly urged to contact the GOSR COO and our office of Human Resources to ensure that you have the latest version of GOSR’s policies and procedures. This page is intentionally left blank November 2016 NY Rising Infrastructure Program Page 2 of 126 Policy and Procedure Manual Version 2.1 POLICY AND PROCEDURE MANUAL NY Rising Infrastructure Program Version Control Version Date Number Revised Description of Revisions Working Draft 2/17/2014 PA Match Program Initial Draft 1.0
    [Show full text]
  • A Century of Forest Stewardship in New Jersey 1905-2005
    A Century of Forest Stewardship in New Jersey 1905-2005 Researched and written by Kevin Wright © Kevin Wright 2005 An Introduction to New Jersey’s Natural Parks and Forest Reservations Tucked between blue-hazed mountains and the ocean shore, the State of New Jersey occupies a full cross section of the Atlantic slope with terrains and habitats that vary remarkably mile by mile. The cultural landscape is equally picturesque; what began as the most ethnically and religiously diverse colony has become the most densely populated State in the Union. Consequently a wonderful variety of plant and animal life competes on a daily basis with a spreading suburban population for space and resources. New Jersey’s virgin forests vanished by 1860, having been repeatedly cut over. With such widespread deforestation, even the Highlands “presented a perfectly bare appearance.” By 1900, about 46% of New Jersey’s land area, amounting to two million acres, remained woodland, though its condition was generally poor. Though this forest area was close to lumber markets, its overall value was insignificant, due mainly to repeated and uncontrolled destruction by forest fires. The first generation of professional American foresters, trained mainly in the carefully managed forest reserves of Germany, recommended the practice of scientific forestry to restore the exhausted condition of New Jersey’s remnant woodlands after centuries of exploitation. They believed that even the poor sandy soils of the Pine Barrens might yield crops of “commercially valuable trees … at a more rapid rate than is the rule on the average forest soil in the East, due to a favorable climate.”1 They not only advocated the creation of an organized firefighting force, but also a system of state-owned demonstration forests to promote reforestation.
    [Show full text]
  • Rockland County, NY
    41.338085N 41.331100N 74.283365W SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Rockland County, NY 73.827099W UNI Fort Montgomery 26902 6 UNI 04758 Philipstown UNI LEGEND 07380 UNI UNI UNI Blooming Grove town 07003 14430 West Point 80747 14430 11860town 57584 24000 West SYMBOL DESCRIPTION SYMBOL LABEL STYLE Goose Pond Kiryas Joel 39853 293 Lake Mountain 6 Point West PUTNAM 079 Federal American Indian State Park 6 Mohegan Mil Res Point 119 Reservation L'ANSE RES 1880 32 ESTER 40689 Mil WESTCH Res Off-Reservation Trust 6 e 6 L t k T1880 A Highlands Land - M e Walton Park T o h k town 34550 e 17 L g 78063 17 a State American Indian Bear Mt n k Tama Res 4125 L State Park Reservation nd u Monroe o Cp Smith R 47988 UNI Alaska Native Regional NANA ANRC 52120 Harriman 16620 Corporation r k 32325 D L 7 S State (or statistically Lakes ev n en L NEW YORK 36 to ak equivalent entity) l es a Woodbury 82750 D r W Fo County (or statistically n r o ERIE 029 e D d C equivalent entity) u m s n R o t de e n r L r L be ai rg T l R k p R Monroe town 47999 Woodbury town 82755 ke UNI Shrub Oak 67279 Annsville Crk Minor Civil Division 22650 (MCD)1,2 Bristol town 07485 k y L rr be n Consolidated City Chester town 15308 a y r MILFORD 47500 w C k Crompond 19092 P w e t 9 a t y UNI Silver Mine Lk s w d Peekskill° 56979 1,3 er H R t r Incorporated Place In S e Davis 18100 29970 U iv es R d a s li a UNI P UNI Census Designated Place Incline Village 35100 Monroe 19650 Csx RR (CDP) 3 Reservoir 14010 UNI Stony Point town 71674 31980 Unified School District UNI Dr 03370 ok erlo r v D O r D y t r p o e t SEC b e i g Yorktown Secondary School District L id R N town 84077 99965 Buchanan r ELM D 10341 Elementary School District re M o 02220 ot h t Farm Rd S Tiorati W d Lk R y g w Dr r k en e P ah b e k k t S c a u DESCRIPTION SYMBOL DESCRIPTION SYMBOL t s B r e t n I n L s ri e Interstate 3 Water Body Pleasant Lake u d l a o s Verplanck s i l S n i Vw Island a l P e C d m v Pond e o A 77211 d R T a t Rd m U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • Nyack Beach State Park
    Nyack Beach State park Hook Mountain State Park is perfect for a great day outside. Hook Mountain and Nyack Beach State Parks are located at the very end of North Broadway in Nyack , NY. The combined areas offer hiking and biking trails, fishing and picnicking along the Hudson River. The riverside path is about two miles long and is fairly level so it’s a relatively easy walk. The Hook Mountain trail continues for another four miles to the Haverstraw Beach State Park for a longer, more intensive hike. There’s plenty of wildlife that call this park home. Hawks nest in the cliffs and glide overhead. There are also fossils and dinosaur footprints in the rocks along the pathway. The views along the bike path are inspiring, not just of the river but the mountain side as well. With every season and every storm the landscape evolves. Rock slides along the cliffs create remarkable formations. Sometimes you can actually look up at the cliffs and pick out where a specific pile of boulders has fallen as if from a jigsaw puzzle. Some of these boulders seem to form familiar shapes of faces and animals, silent sentinels watching over the seasons, sunrises, the ebbs and flows of the tides and dual currants of the historic and mysterious Hudson River. There are many places along this path that make it special. Trails lead up the mountain and intersect and weave through the woods along the river, some continue to the upper level of the park and beyond, some just end abruptly.
    [Show full text]
  • November/December 2007
    www.nynjtc.org Connecting People with Nature since 1920 November/December 2007 New York-New Jersey Trail Conference — Maintaining 1,700 Miles of Foot Trails In this issue: Crowd Builds RPH Bridge...pg 3 • A Library for Hikers....pg 6 • Are Those Pines Sick, Or What?...pg 7 • Avoid Hunters, Hike Local...pg 12 revamped. There was an enormous amount BELLEAYRE Trail Blazes of Glory of out-blazing the old markers, putting up new markers, closing trails, clearing the By Brenda Freeman-Bates, Senior Curator, Ward Pound Ridge Reservation trails of over-hanging and fallen debris, Agreement Scales reconfiguring trails, walking them in the different seasons, tweaking the blazes, and Back Resort and having a good time while doing it all. A new trail map has also been printed, Protects Over with great thanks and gratitude to the Trail Conference for sharing its GPS database of the trails with the Westchester County 1,400 Acres of Department of Planning. The new color map and brochure now correctly reflect Land in New York N O the trail system, with points of interest, I T A V topographical lines, forests, fields, and On September 5, 2007, Governor Spitzer R E S E wetlands indicated. announced an agreement regarding the R E G This amazing feat would never have been Belleayre Resort at Catskill Park develop - D I R accomplished so expeditiously without the ment proposal after a seven-year legal and D N U dedication of volunteers. To date, a very regulatory battle over the project. The O P D impressive 928.5 volunteer hours have agreement between the project sponsor, R A W : been recorded for this project.
    [Show full text]
  • Beyond the Exit
    New Jersey Road Trips Beyond the Exit ROUTE 80 Mountain Magic NJ TURNPIKE Bridge to Bridge ROUTE 78 Farm to City ROUTE 42 Wine Trail GARDEN STATE PARKWAY Down the Shore BY THE ROUTE: Six major road ROUTE 40 Southern trips across the River to state where you Shore can stop along the way and experience New Jersey’s best! Due to COVID19, some attractions may be following adjusted hours and attendance guidelines. Please contact attraction for updated policies and procedures. NJ TURNPIKE – Bridge to Bridge 1 PALISADES 8 GROUNDS 9 SIX FLAGS CLIFFS FOR SCULPTURE GREAT ADVENTURE 5 6 1 2 4 3 2 7 10 ADVENTURE NYC SKYLINE PRINCETON AQUARIUM 7 8 9 3 LIBERTY STATE 6 MEADOWLANDS 11 BATTLESHIP PARK/STATUE SPORTS COMPLEX NEW JERSEY 10 OF LIBERTY 11 4 LIBERTY 5 AMERICAN SCIENCE CENTER DREAM 1 PALISADES CLIFFS - The Palisades are among the most dramatic 7 PRINCETON - Princeton is a town in New Jersey, known for the Ivy geologic features in the vicinity of New York City, forming a canyon of the League Princeton University. The campus includes the Collegiate Hudson north of the George Washington Bridge, as well as providing a University Chapel and the broad collection of the Princeton University vista of the Manhattan skyline. They sit in the Newark Basin, a rift basin Art Museum. Other notable sites of the town are the Morven Museum located mostly in New Jersey. & Garden, an 18th-century mansion with period furnishings; Princeton Battlefield State Park, a Revolutionary War site; and the colonial Clarke NYC SKYLINE – Hudson County, NJ offers restaurants and hotels along 2 House Museum which exhibits historic weapons the Hudson River where visitors can view the iconic NYC Skyline – from rooftop dining to walk/ biking promenades.
    [Show full text]
  • Guide to the Battles of Trenton and Princeton
    Hidden Trenton Guide to the Battles of Trenton and Princeton Nine Days that Changed the World December 26, 1776 to January 3, 1777 A self-guided tour of the places and events that shaped the battles and changed the history of America Go to http://HiddenTrenton.com/BattleTour for links to online resources Updated 2017 Copyright © 2011, 2017 all rights reserved. The pdf file of this document may be distributed for non- commercial purposes over the Internet in its original, complete, and unaltered form. Schools and other non-profit educational institutions may print and redistribute sections of this document for classroom use without royalty. All of the illustrations in this document are either original creations, or believed by the author to be in the public domain. If you believe that you are the copyright holder of any image in this document, please con- tact the author via email at [email protected]. Forward I grew up in NJ, and the state’s 1964 Tricentennial cel- Recently, John Hatch, my friend and business partner, ebration made a powerful impression on me as a curious organized a “Tour of the Battle of Trenton” as a silent 4th grader. Leutez’ heroic portrait of Washington Cross- auction item for Trenton’s Passage Theatre. He used ing the Delaware was one of the iconic images of that Fischer’s book to research many of the stops, augmenting celebration. My only memory of a class trip to the park his own deep expertise concerning many of the places a year or two later, is peering up at the mural of Wash- they visited as one of the state’s top restoration architects.
    [Show full text]