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This 2,155 mile National scenic trail from Maine to Georgia cuts across the southeast corner of New York State, rolling along ridges and dipping to roads. The New York leg takes an average of seven t
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This overnight trip has it all: a great diversity of Hudson Highlands landscape, including mountain vistas, lake shore, open fields, swamps, hemlock forests, and hardwood ridges. Natural history feat
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The less-traveled western section of Bear Mount - Harriman State Park offers an ideal introduction to the history, flora, and fauna of the Hudson Highlands. The land here comes alive with signs of th
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A great river offers the focus for this walk. Powerful mountain-building forces first molded the stark relief of this Hudson River gorge, then glacial action carved a 15-mile-long fjord here. Human
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Fort Montgomery
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NY
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- 6.7 miles
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The AT covers relatively easy terrain on this 9.5-mile hike as it provides sweeping vistas of gently rolling farmlands, offers a walk through New York's second largest freshwater wetland, the Great Sw
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Pawling
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NY
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- 9.5 miles
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Clarence Fahnestock State Park straddles rugged, boulder strewn hills where highbush blueberry and mountain laurel compete in thin, acidic soils atop glacier-scraped bedrock. This 10.4-mile hike cuts
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McKeel Corners
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NY
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- 10.4 miles
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The rounded Hudson Highland hills north of the Taconic State Parkway offer a kinder and gentler hiking experience than their rugged cousins to the south. This area, with two AT shelters, is perfect f
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Pawling
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NY
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- 16.8 miles
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The top of Mount Peter, where this hike begins, is one of the prime birding spots of the northeastern United States. In autumn 1995, hawk watchers tallied 8142 raptors headed south from here. These
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Greenwood Lake
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NY
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- 12.3 miles
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This 8.8-mile hike offers the pleasant illusion of wilderness. The AT here is heavily wooded and less traveled than through Bear Mt. - Harriman State Parks to the south or Fahnestock State park to th
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Garrison
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NY
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- 8.9 miles
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