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A Dobbs FerryDobbs A High Gutter Point Exit Border ROCKLAND COUNTY, NEW YORK  To Bear Mountain, 4 (NB) Monument I-87 and I-287 BERGEN COUNTY,

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Exit Refreshment Stand 4 (SB) Bookshop C Travel Information F W

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LEGEND PARK HEADQUARTERS Public Restrooms Cape Fly Away Parking Area Administrative Offices FEE Parking Fee (In-Season) Parkway Police O Police Court Picnic Area

Closter Dock Road Food, Drinks, and Snacks Alpine (Seasonal only at picnic areas) To Closter ALPINE PICNIC Approach Road Boat Launching Ramp AREA AND BOAT BASIN Building or Structure FEE B Hiking Trail Kearney House View Point Pavilion

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Exit Bloomer’s A LONG PATH (aqua blaze) 1 Beach Palisade Avenue W SHORE TRAIL (white blaze) To Englewood ENGLEWOOD PICNIC AREA AND BOAT BASIN Carpenter’s Trail (blue blaze) B Englewood Cliffs Entrance Y Steep: 300 ft. climb Dyckman Hill Road FEE Dyckman Hill Trail (yellow blaze) Y Graphic Scale in Miles Graphic Moderate: 340 ft. climb

St. Hudson Terrace Hudson Peter’s College Spuyten Duyvil East-West scale has been exaggerated 2:1 for clarity. scale has been exaggerated 2:1 for East-West

W Englewood 2 Grove LEGEND ALLISON PARK Public Restrooms

Pine Parking Area Point A H U D S O N R I V E FEE Parking Fee (In-Season) U.S. Route 9W GAS STATIONS

Picnic Area ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS FORT LEE Food, Drinks, and Snacks (Seasonal only at picnic areas)

To Routes 4, 46 and I-80 Boat Launching Ramp  west and I-95 south The Cloisters ROSS DOCK PICNIC AREA Building or Structure B Hiking Trail 1 FEE Linwood Park B Avenue View Point

Carpenter’s Bus Stop Fletcher Dock Terrace Improved Road Carpenter’s Grove Group picnic area (permit only) Unimproved Road Linwood Avenue A Lemoine Avenue Hudson

George Washington Bridge I-95 north to NYC  Hiking Trail I-95 south to Routes 4, 46 and I-80 Stream HAZARD’S DOCK Bridge Plaza South (Public Boat Launch) Boundary (Bruce Reynolds Boulevard) Fence FEE Main Street Cliff Edge DuPont W Dock FORT LEE HISTORIC PARK Edgewater Entrance Henry Hudson Drive FEE

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A Dobbs FerryDobbs A High Gutter Point Exit Border ROCKLAND COUNTY, NEW YORK  “ C a r p e n t e r ’ s L o o p I ” To Bear Mountain, 4 (NB) Monument I-87 and I-287 T i p s f o r BERGEN H COUNTY,i k NEW e JERSEY r s E D Easy+ with one steep slope. About 2 mi., 1.5 hrs. round-trip. (This hike can E A be combined with “Carpenter’s Loop II,” below.) Skunk Hollow PerhapsC because of our proximity to New STATE LINE Old Route 9W York City,(closed to traffic) many first-time PalisadesLOOKOUT hikers This hike begins at Fort Lee Historic Park and covers about 2 mi. over rela- are surprised at how rugged our trails can Exit Refreshment Stand tively easy terrain but with a steep and somewhat challenging descent in the 4 (SB) Bookshop be. PleaseC be prepared! Some Traveltips: Information middle. W F From Fort Lee Historic Park, hike north on the sidewalk along Hudson Ter-

Always tellA someone whereThe Giant Stairs you’re going race to the metal stairways that go up and into the woods on the aqua-blazed (difficult scramble) rock

and when youA expect to be back. This is just Long Path just north of the Bridge. Follow the Long Path north, exploring some of the unmarked but well-defined side trails overlooking good hikingB sense, no matter where you go. Exit B Camp Alpine 3 (SB) Forest the Bridge if you wish. About 0.5 mi. on the Long Path, look for the top of the New York Council View

B Wear sturdy, comfortableW shoes that are notHastings-on-Hudson blue-blazed Carpenter’s Trail, and take this down to the Shore Trail.

B WOMEN’S W Take the white-blazed Shore Trail south beneath the Bridge, passing the brand new. Ankle support is crucial,FEDERATION espe - cially on the AGiant Stairs. ShoesMONUMENT not broken Hazard’s Dock boat ramp, for another 0.5 mi., where it will turn uphill to take in will likely cause blisters. you to the park’s Edgewater Entrance. Back at Hudson Terrace, turn north and return to start on the multi-use path.

Ruckman Ruckman Road Bring plenty of Pointwater—and drink it as you go. Some basic first aid supplies are always a a good idea, too, as are some snacks. a r p e n t e r s o o p

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Parkway Moderate. About 4 mi., 1.5 hrs. round-trip. (This hike can be combined with New Jersey Council Dress or pack for all possible weather condi- “Carpenter’s Loop I,” above.) Parkway Bombay “Man-in-the-Rock” pillar

Interstate tions U.S. Routeforecasted 9W forHook that day. Layers are the Interstate Point Begin at Englewood Boat Basin & Picnic Area. Pick up the Shore Trail imme-

wisest wayPalisades to dress for the outdoors—youComfort Palisades diately south of the entrance booth and refreshment stand and follow it about Bergen County can add or remove as you go. We also Department of Parks W Twombly’s Landing a mile to Ross Dock. Just south of Ross Dock is the blue-blazed Carpenter’s Trail, recommend long-sleevedGrey clothing, even in Crag which goes up to the Long Path (aqua). Take the Long Path north. Before Dyck- warmer weather. Poison ivy thrivesEXCELSIOR on the A PICNIC AREA man Hill, the Long Path skirts the edge of Allison Park and St. Peter’s College. Palisades. Ticks are common. Long clothing Follow the aqua blazes to the top of Dyckman Hill Road (the park’s Englewood

Alpine Entrancewith a spray of repellant at the cuffs is your Alpine Approach Road Cliffs entrance), then take the yellow-blazed Dyckman Hill Trail back to start. bestExit defense. 2 Points of interest on the “Carpenter Loop” hikes: LEGEND Look out for poisonous snakes. The copper- PARK The is considered one of the world’s busiest HEADQUARTERS Public Restrooms head is relatively commonCape Fly here, if seldom Away bridges. It opened in October 1931; the lower level was completed in the Parking Area seen. Snakes tend to be shy, so Administrative watch Offices your FEE Parking Fee (In-Season) Parkway Police early 1960s. step—and don’t reachO where youPolice Court cannot Picnic Area Carpenter’s Trail is named for Carpenter Brothers’ Quarry, the largest and Food, Drinks, and Snacks see.Closter Dock Road Alpine (Seasonal only at picnic areas) To Closter ALPINE PICNIC most destructive of the Palisades quarries of the late nineteenth century. Approach Road Boat Launching Ramp AREA AND BOAT BASIN Objections to the quarries led to the creation of the Palisades Interstate Park Building or Structure Your dog is welcome to enjoy ourFEE trails B Hiking Trail in 1900 (signs of the quarry’s blasting can be seen in the relative smoothness with you, but must be kept onKearney aHouse leash at View Point Pavilion of the cliff face here). Bus Stop allHillside times. Avenue Please clean up afterAlpine Grove your pet. Improved Road To Cresskill Group picnic area The “Riviera,” one of the premier nightclubs of the mid-twentieth century, Unimproved Road Hiking Trail was sited just north of the Bridge. Stream The steepness and erodability of our Yonkers

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njpalisades.orgInterstate From the south end of the Englewood Picnic Area, notice the set of stone Palisades Palisades stairs that goes up to the sidewalk on Dyckman Hill Road. Take these, then us-

Huyler’s Landing ing caution cross to the yellow-blazed Dyckman Hill Trail on the other side of

R the road, taking this trail up to the summit. Bear right (north) at the junction of Palisade Avenue and the entrance to the northbound Parkway and find where

U.S. Route 9W the aqua-blazed Long Path goes north from that point. ALPINE TENAFLY Montammy Road North Brook Continue north on the Long Path to the red-blazed Huyler’s Landing Trail. Greenbrook Falls Tenafly Boulevard Green Brook (To shorten this hike, we recommend High Tom’s or the Rockefeller Lookout or Nature Brook Center Clinton Point as turn-back points—beyond Clinton Point, the trail begins to get more difficult, and considerably less scenic until you are beyond Greenbrook Lambier’s Lost W Dock Sanctuary.) GREENBROOK Note: The northernmost mile of this hike is shown in the inset, left. Brook SANCTUARY Membership Required Take the red-blazed Huyler’s Landing Trail downhill to the white-blazed Kelders Brook Preserve Lost Brook Shore Trail, then head south (right turn) to return. Revised Winter 2013 Revised Brook

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Exit Bloomer’s 1 Beach Palisade Avenue To Englewood ENGLEWOOD PICNIC AREA AND BOAT BASIN Englewood Cliffs Entrance Y Dyckman Hill Road FEE

St. Hudson Terrace Hudson Peter’s College Spuyten Duyvil

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To Routes 4, 46 and I-80  west and I-95 south The Cloisters ROSS DOCK PICNIC AREA

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Carpenter’s Fletcher Dock Terrace Carpenter’s Grove Group picnic area (permit only) Linwood Avenue A Lemoine Avenue Hudson

George Washington Bridge I-95 north to NYC  I-95 south to Routes 4, 46 and I-80 HAZARD’S DOCK Bridge Plaza South (Public Boat Launch) (Bruce Reynolds Boulevard) FEE Main Street DuPont Manhattan W Dock FORT LEE HISTORIC PARK Edgewater Entrance Henry Hudson Drive FEE

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