New York
Hiking Trails Guidebooks
This selection of New York hiking trails guidebooks is as up-to-date and inclusive as is possible or practical. Where there are more than one edition of a particular book available, only the current edition has been included. Some vintage New York hiking trails guidebooks that are so outdated as to be useless, or for which no meaningful content description can be located, have been excluded.
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Fully revised and updated, this popular guidebook features more than 75 of the best trails the Empire State has to offer. From the Niagara Frontier's historic Erie Canal and the glacier-gouged landscape of the Finger Lakes region to the lore of Rip Van Winkle's Catskills and the 4,000-foot peaks of the Adirondacks, the trails in Hiking New York will please nature lovers and history buffs alike. Veteran hikers Rhonda and George Ostertag lead the way through short nature walks, lengthy canal and rail trails, and rugged wilderness adventures. Provided are hikes suited to every ability, directions to the trailheads, comprehensive trail descriptions with mile-by-mile directional cues, difficulty ratings, average hiking times, best hiking seasons for every featured hike, and information on fees, permits, contacts, and canine compatibility.
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Take a Hike New York City:
Hikes Within Two Hours of Manhattan
Hiking around New York City is not just about a trek through Central Park or between high rises. Award-winning writer Skip Card shows you the best hikes in and around The Big Apple. All hikes within the guide take less than 2 1/2 hours to reach by car, with details on public transportation options and clear directions on how to reach the trailhead. Let Skip show you all the worthwhile hikes, from short, flat routes suitable for families to day-long, steep treks for more advanced hikes. Each hike profile contains practical information including point-by-point trail navigation, contact information, facilities, fees, parking instructions, and an easy-to-use map for each trail. Take a Hike New York City covers trails in New York's five boroughs and parts of Long Island, New Jersey, the Catskills, Hudson Valley, the highlands, and the Appalachian Trail.
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Best Day Hikes in the Catskills and Hudson Valley
With more than 600 miles of trails within just a few hours of New York City, the Catskills and the Hudson River Valley are a hiker's paradise, boasting varied and scenic terrain from Westchester County to Albany. This new guide from the experts at the Appalachian Mountain Club leads beginner and experienced hikers alike along sixty of the region's most spectacular trails, from short family nature walks to day-long hikes that reward with magnificent views. Each trip description includes a detailed map and a summary of the trip time, distance, and difficulty, plus an icon indicating whether the trail is also good for snowshoeing or cross-country. The guide includes appendices packed with snowshoe treks, rock climbing in the Gunks, and other opportunities for outdoor adventure in the region, making this guide an essential four-season reference for locals and visitors alike. Special features include: * 50 day hikes for all ability levels, ranging from two to eight miles long * Detailed and accurate trail descriptions * Locator map and "At-A-Glance" highlights chart for easy trip comparison and planning * Hiking and safety tips * Detailed maps showing parking areas, trails, and natural highlights * Nature Notes about prominent species, and unique natural features of each hike * Photographs of plant and animal life reflecting each trip's hidden wonders.
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60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: New York City
With so many superb trails in the New York City area, planning a hike can be a frustrating endeavor. Which one for an all-day outing? Where can I take my dog? Which are suitable for young children? 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: New York City answers those questions with an array of classic trails and little-known gems, while guiding the reader through 439 miles of outdoor fun and excitement. Unbounded by state lines, the trails awaiting hikers in the updated edition showcase swamp streams and roaring waterfalls, hidden lakes and bald summits, including a meandering ascent of Jenny Jump Mountain in New Jersey, a deep exploration of Connecticut's Trout Brook Valley, and a scenic section of the Appalachian Trail that runs by Fitzgerald Falls in New York. Packed with valuable tips and humorous observations, the guide prepares both novices and veterans for the outdoors. From secluded woods and sun-struck seashores, to lowland swamps and rock-strewn mountain tops, this practical guidebook contains all the information needed to have many great hikes in and around New York City.
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In this user-friendly, beautifully illustrated, and occasionally eccentric guidebook, David A. Steinberg blazes the trail to more than 20 unusual landmarks and hard-to-find destinations - all within a two-hour drive of New York City. Geared for the experienced hiker or camping adventurer, the book includes hikes to a variety of urban ruins, including a World War II-era air force base, a vacant dairy farm, pine plantations, abandoned quarries, tunnels, cemeteries, and iron mines. Each chapter contains detailed directions, a hand-drawn map, suggestions for the optimal time and season to visit, and GPS coordinates to specific sites. Bringing fifteen years of experience as a leader of hikes, Steinberg leaves no part of the trip unplanned. He even suggests ideal conditions for the outing. An overcast day, for instance, sets up the haunted atmosphere appropriate for visiting a water tower in Mountainside, New Jersey, that has links to a murder-suicide in the 1970s. For less experienced hikers, the guide also includes a chapter on equipment and safety, detailed instructions on how to program a hand-held Global Positioning System receiver, and a glossary of terms. Both a practical guide and a creative chronicle, this book is bound to please hikers and history buffs alike.
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Take A Hike - Family Walks in New York's Finger Lakes Region
This guide reveals the little known places and hidden gems of the Finger Lakes Region of New York State. * Visit an old-growth forest. * Stroll along abandoned railroad beds and canal towpaths. * Hike the strenuous glacially sculpted hills. * Savor the vistas of wind and water sculpted drumlins overlooking Lake Ontario. * Gaze into a verdant lake-filled valley far below. * Ramble through a bog and a rich shrub fen. * Wander on winding boardwalks through swamps and wetlands. Walk the Finger Lakes Region with ease and confidence. Each trail is GPS mapped for accuracy. Directions and GPS coordinates are given for easily locating trailhead parking. With this guidebook you'll know the length of the hike, difficulty of the terrain, variety of uses allowed, type of trail surface, markings to look for, and even if your dog is welcome to hike with you for each of the 68 trails.
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Hiking the Adirondacks:
A Guide to 42 of the Best Hiking Adventures in New York's Adirondacks
This book features 42 of the best day hikes and weekend backpacking trips in the mountain wilderness of northeastern New York State. From 360-degree mountaintop views to dramatic waterfalls and pristine ponds, it takes readers to the most scenic locations, some well-known and others off the beaten path. Features include: * Hikes suited to every ability. * Accurate directions to popular as well as less-traveled trails. * Up-to-date trail descriptions with mile-by-mile directional cues. * Detailed trail maps and GPS coordinates. * Difficulty ratings, average hiking times, and best hiking seasons for each hike. * Trail Finder for best hikes with dogs, children, great views, or wildlife viewing. * Information on fees and permits, contacts, events and attractions, restaurants and accommodations, canine compatibility, and more. * Zero-impact and wilderness safety tips and techniques.
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Peak Experiences, Hiking the Highest Summits of New York, County by County
This guidebook, packed with pictures and maps, will lead you on a quest. Be the first (besides the author) to bag the highest point of each county of New York State - there are 62 to be conquered. Some are barely molehills that can be driven by; others are significant mountain peaks that require an all-day climb. All promise the exhilaration of new discoveries. Can you name the highest point of the county where you live? Chances are good that you'll be wrong. As Gary Fallesen researched the summits he repeatedly came across experts who steered him wrong. Local belief often differs from factual reality. In this book you'll learn not only where the real Peak Experiences are, but how to get there. Fallesen delved into the history of each high point as well. With his guidance you'll meet the people populating the high points today and at the peaks in history.
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Best Easy Day Hikes: Rochester
KIndle Edition - Best Easy Day Hikes: Rochester
Best Easy Day Hikes: Rochester includes concise descriptions and detailed maps of 20 of the author's favorite hikes in and around the Flour City - from a 100-acre wilderness in Cobb's Hill Park and the rock walls in the Genesee River Gorge to the Erie Canal Heritage Trail and the Thousand Acre Swamp. Features include: * Thirty-minute strolls to three-hour adventures. * Mile-by-mile directions and clear trail maps. * Trail Finder for best hikes for birders, history buffs, and nature lovers. * GPS coordinates.
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Best Hikes With Dogs: New York City and Beyond
Kindle Edition - Best Hikes With Dogs: New York City and Beyond
Tammy McCarley has hiked with her dog, Sienna (a Golden Retriever-Chow mix), for four years throughout the Empire State. Now they present the best trails for both you and your dog in New York City, the Hudson Valley, and Long Island. You'll find outings for every type of pet and pet owner, from easy day hikes to overnight trips. Discover rolling hills, rocky escarpments, clear lakes, beautiful beaches, and more. All outings are rated 1 to 4 paws to show difficulty for both humans and dogs. Trails are on terrain that's easy on the paws, and there are advance alerts for any canine concerns. A handy Trail Finder Chart helps you choose the outing that's best for you and your pet by comparing hikes by length, terrain, difficulty for dogs, and features such as backpacking options. Also included are loads of helpful tips: how to prepare your dog for a hike, what to bring, how to be responsible trail users, dealing with wildlife encounters, and hiking with your pet in the Northeast.
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This pastoral region of hills, forests, lakes, vineyards, and gorges offers the hiker some of the most scenic landscapes in the Empire State. The 50 hikes described here have been thoroughly checked and updated for the second edition, and include many new excursions, among them Buttermilk Falls, Watkins Glen, the Black River Canal Towpath, and the recently-designated Finger Lakes National Forest. These outings are designed to take you into wildlife management and wilderness areas where few manmade elements intrude, through marshland and game refuges, and along wild streams and deep gorges - all merely an hour or so from upstate metropolitan centers. Excursions range from half-day walks for families to overnight circuits for campers or backpackers and many of them are suitable for ski-touring or snowshoeing. For each, you will find: easy-to-follow directions to the trailhead; walking distances; vertical rise; landmarks; estimated hiking time; and a topographical trail map.
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Take A Hike - Family Walks in the Rochester Area
The walks, rambles, strolls, and hikes in this book are designed for people who delight in exploring unique or little-known places. The trails lead through forests, fields, marshes, hills, and arboretums where you can enjoy the natural world. This book will help you learn more about Rochester, NY history, get much-needed exercise, introduce children to the joys of nature, or find new places to walk your dog. Don't stash it away in winter either. Many of the trails are good for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. With this guide, you'll be able to explore the Rochester area with ease and confidence. Each of the 60 walks is rated for difficulty, type of terrain, and described by length and estimated time required. In addition, you'll know how to easily find the trails and parking. Whether young or young at heart, you can enjoy the adventures this guide brings to life.
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Kindle Edition - Doggin' Long Island
Doggin' Long Island explores the region's top trails with your best friend in mind and it tells you the parks that don't welcome dogs. It also directs you to dog-friendly campgrounds, provides tips on outfitting your dog for a hike, and gives advice on practicing low impact hiking with your dog and where to find great beaches to take your dog on Long Island. For dog-friendly parks this guide describes the trail options for your dog, evaluates park traffic from other users, and lets you know whether you will need a guide dog to find your way around and, of course, tells you how to get to the park. While walking the dog, Gelbert also brings along generous helpings of local history, botany, geology, architecture and more.
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New York Walk Book is an indispensable regional reference book for the hiker. It provides complete trail descriptions for each hike with full-color maps. This guide also dispenses relevant information on the state's geology and history, plus useful hiking tips. Considered to be the hikers' bible since 1923. Includes a comprehensive index and magnificent sketches.
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Kids on the Trail: Hiking With Children in the Adirondacks
Kids on the Trail: Hiking With Children in the Adirondacks describes 62 hikes, treks, and opportunities to explore with children on trails throughout the Park. The book provides anecdotes, planning information, and practical tips for addressing the needs of children of different ages as they and their adult companions take to the trails. Each trail description notes how to get to the trailhead, the round-trip distance, and, where pertinent, the ascent involved. Includes page maps, photographs, and illustrations by the authors' children.
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This is the first comprehensive guide to trails of the South Fork. For more than ten years the Group for the South Fork has been working with the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society and the Southampton Trails Preservation Society to preserve and define the trails, ancient and new, of the South Fork of Long Island. Mike Bottini not only helped to blaze these trails, for more than four years he has been describing them in his column in The Southampton Press. "South Fork Outdoors," which served as the basis for this book, won the award for best outdoors column from the New York Press Association in 2002. An accomplished naturalist, Mike offers a vivid picture of the local ecologies of the trails. From seashore to oak/pine woods, from salt-water wetlands to freshwater ponds and kettleholes, Mike describes the unique natural history of the remarkably diverse South Fork environments. Even if you are only an armchair nature-lover, you'll find this book enormously informative. If you like to hike, whether for a hundred yards or a hundred miles, this guide is essential. Each trail is meticulously mapped and described, with extensive comments on what to look for and why.
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Kindle Edition - Best Easy Day Hikes: Buffalo
Now there's a book that provides the best of the best: the top 20 trails for a short walk, a longer hike or an all-day adventure. Best Easy Day Hikes: Buffalo chooses the trails that lead to the most panoramic views, and that wind through the prettiest woods and meadows and into the most interesting natural areas in Erie, Niagara and Genesee Counties. Urban trails, river walks, converted rail rights-of-way and park paths are just some of the wonderful walking experiences you'll find right here in Greater Buffalo - selected for you by a lifetime upstate New York resident, professional travel writer and active area birder.
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Walks in Nature's Empire:
Exploring the Nature Conservancy's Preserves in New York State
Walks in Nature's Empire guides you through some of the Empire State's loveliest and most ecologically important sites. Author Scott Edward Anderson, a poet and conservancy development director, has carefully selected 35 preserves representative of the state's natural diversity. In these pages he describes their trails, the species that live within them, their biological significance, and the joy that can be derived from visiting them.
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Rails-to-Trails New York: The Official Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Guidebook
From the official series of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, this is a comprehensive guide to hiking, jogging, skating and biking New York's rail-trail system. Inside you'll find: 39 of the region's most popular rural and urban rail-trails; full trail profiles, including length, access points, and surface type; detailed trail maps; availability of parking, rest rooms, and places to stay and eat along the trail.
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Hiking Long Island:
A Comprehensive Guide To Parks And Trails
Whether a resident or visitor, become acquainted with the beauty of Long Island's woods, fields, pine barrens, and beaches. Hiking Long Island is a comprehensive hiking guidebook that is supplemented with information on the area's geology, flora, and fauna. Each hike description includes a schematic map and public transportation information when available.
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Adirondack Trails - High Peaks Region
First published in 1934, this new 13th edition remains the essential guide to trails of the Adirondack High Peaks region. It includes the latest trail routes, designated campsite and lean-to locations, DEC regulations, and updated trail mileages. The latest edition of the High Peaks topographic trail map is included.
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50 Hikes in the Adirondacks:
Short Walks, Day Trips, and Backpacks Throughout the Park
This classic guide to hiking in the Adirondacks has been extensively revised and updated and now includes five new hikes. The 50 hikes offered here represent a cross-section of the wilderness and wild forest: rugged peak climbs, gentle trips to distant waterfalls, bushwhacks to wild rivers. In all this guide describes 360 miles of trails to caves, uninhabited lakes, wetlands, cliffs, and fire towers across the Park's 6 million acres. The hikes range in length from 1.5 to 13.5 miles. Each hike description includes a topographic map, mile-by-mile directions, and information on distance, difficulty, terrain, and hiking time. An overview chart makes it easy to pick a hike for every ability.
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Best Easy Day Hikes: Long Island
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Best Easy Day Hikes: Long Island includes concise descriptions and detailed maps for 20 easy-to- follow hikes on trails that offer a stunning mix of terrain. Hike to the seal hangout at Montauk Point before heading uphill through a hardwood forest to search for the legendary bounty at Money Pond. Or explore the phantom forest of the ever-shifting Walking Dunes. Features include: * Thirty-minute strolls to four-hour adventures. * Mile-by-mile directions. * Trail Finder for best hikes with dogs, children, nature, history, and greatviews. * GPS coordinates.
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Paths Along The Hudson: A Guide to Walking and Biking
Whether you are an ardent hiker or prefer to enjoy the great outdoors from your living-room armchair, Jeffrey Perls has written the essential guidebook on one of the most majestic natural areas of the eastern United States - the Hudson River. Perls brings together the culture, history, nature, and recreational activities along the Hudson river in one convenient guidebook. He not only maps out walks and bike trails, both urban and rural, but also introduces readers to the landscape, geology, history, and culture of the Hudson Valley region. Paths along the Hudson provides a practical and geographically comprehensive guide to exploring the area on foot and by bike. The trail routes bring readers as close to the river as possible and guide them to rewarding vistas, nature preserves, and historic landmarks. You will learn: * How to find beautiful, practically unknown areas accessible by New York City public transportation. * Where is the most magnificent trail along the Hudson, with woodlands, beaches, cliffs, and forests? * What you will need to make your explorations enjoyable, safe, and fun for everyone from the serious hiker to parents and kids. * The cultural and social history of the entire region.
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Catskill Trails: A Ranger's Guide to the High Peaks
A National Parks Service Forest Ranger takes you step by step on a guided tour of some of the most rugged wilderness terrain in the northeastern United States - the high peaks of the Catskill Forest Preserve - as well as guiding you to some of the more accessible and better trammeled sites and scenes of "Rip Van Winkle Country." The author, a conservation professional, has taken an interdisciplinary approach, drawing the latest information from geology, forest ecology, meteorology, wildlife biology, geography, economics, and history to offer a well-rounded picture of the Catskill Mountains as the hikes rise to the sky through levels of rock strata and ever-changing forests. The goal. as the author states, is for the reader to experience the hike and see the Catskills as "a natural historian, not a tourist," and to see not just the present, but the past as well... and maybe even the future. Includes photos, maps and keys to hikes. Showcases The Escarpment Wall, Huckleberry Pt., Plattekill Clove, Kaaterskill High Peak, Kaaterskill Clove, Roundtop, Hunter Mtn., Windham High Peak, Pratt's Rock, Mount Utsayantha, Huntersfield, The Devil's Path: Indian Head, Twin, Sugarloaf and Paltyeau, Bearpen, and The Blackhead Range: Thomas Cole, Blackdome and Blackhead.
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Thirty nature treks, selected for their natural, stand-alone beauty, are enhanced by tangible silhouettes of a fascinating past, from early Native Americans and Colonial settlers to the Industrial Revolution and Victorian-era grand hotels. Hike to waterfalls, mountains, escarpments, lakes, sculpted rocks, ponds, rivers, islands, caves, balanced rocks, geysers, and deep gorges while visiting the sites of famous battles of the Revolutionary War, ghostly industrial ruins, a Moorish-style castle, views and vistas made world-famous by America's greatest painters, vanished Shaker communities, great estates of the "Gilded Age," a working lighthouse, and "New York's Mount Rushmore."
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Guide to Adirondack Trails: Southern Region
Guide to Adirondack Trails: Southern Region gives detailed descriptions for all hikeable trails in the southern section of the park bounded roughly by NY 8 to the north and Lake George to the east. The Silver Lake Wilderness is also featured. Folding map included.
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Catskill Mountain Guide: Comprehensive Guide to Hiking Trails in the Catskills
A must-have for every Catskills hiker, this revised and updated guide from the Appalachian Mountain Club offers hikers up-to-date coverage of more than 300 miles of trails in the Catskills Mountains. Inside you'll find detailed descriptions of trails to suit every ability level - from an easy walk to the Kaaterskill Falls, to strenuous climbs in the Indian Head Wilderness Area, including Devil's Path, a favorite route for backpackers. Tips on trip planning and map and compass use, plus notes on the geology, flora, and fauna of the region make this guide an ideal addition to your pack.
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Gunks Trails: A Ranger's Guide to the Shawangunk Mountains
Gunks Trails is an illustrated hiking guide to the Shawangunk Mountains in New York State's Hudson River Valley, with trail interpretation from a forest ranger's point of view. It includes interpretation of natural history, geology, forest ecology, botany, wildlife biology, and human history, as well as being a traditional trail guide to the best views and points of interest, with maps, keys to hikes, GPS points, difficulty ratings, directions to trailheads and parking.
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Catskill Day Hikes for All Seasons
Catskill Day Hikes for All Seasons covers 60 hikes throughout New York's Catskill Mountains. All featured hikes include difficulty ratings, distances, and trailheads, as well as detailed trail descriptions. Information on hiking with children and seasonal concerns is also provided.
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Five-Star Trails in the Adirondacks: A Guide to the Most Beautiful Hikes
Each hike in this guide through the Adirondack Park is rated for scenery, difficulty, trail condition, and accessibility for children. Individual trail maps, elevation profiles, and GPS trailhead coordinates aid in navigating the myriad of unnamed roads. Featured trails range from easy strolls for the family to bone-crunching vertical ascents for the fearless hiker.
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50 Hikes in Central New York's Leatherstocking Country
Longtime central New York residents and avid hikers Bill and Eileen Bowers guide you through some of the best hiking opportunities in central New York, from the eastern shore of Lake Ontario and the Syracuse region to the Southern Tier, the northern Catskills, the Erie Canalway Trail, and much more. The hikes in this guide range in length and difficulty from half-mile nature trails suitable for families with children to strenuous daylong treks across rough terrain. A "Hikes at a Glance" table makes it easy to choose hikes for every interest and ability level. Each hike description includes mile-by-mile directions, information on hiking time, mileage, and trail conditions, as well as knowledgeable commentary on the natural and human history you'll encounter along the way.
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Best Easy Day Hikes - Albany includes concise descriptions of the best short hikes in the area, with detailed maps of the routes. The 20 hikes in this guide are generally short, easy to follow, and guaranteed to please.
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Kindle Edition - Best Easy Day Hikes: Syracuse
Here's a book that provides the best of the best: the top 20 trails for a short walk, a longer hike or an all-day adventure. Best Easy Day Hikes: Syracuse chooses the trails that lead to the most panoramic views, and that wind through the prettiest woods and meadows and into the most interesting natural areas in Onondaga, Cayuga and Madison Counties. Urban trails, walks circling lakes, and gorge paths are just some of the wonderful walking experiences you'll find right here in Greater Syracuse - selected for you by a lifetime upstate New York resident, professional travel writer and active area birder.
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Best Hikes With Children in the Catskills and Hudson River Valley
Kindle Edition - Best Hikes With Children in the Catskills and Hudson River Valley
This edition of Best Hikes with Children in the Catskills and Hudson River Valley guides you to some of the Empire State's most kid-friendly outdoor excursions, all of which are located within two and a half hours of New York City. Completely revised and updated, with trips suitable for preschoolers to teenagers. * Features 51 short, spectacular hikes for kids, seniors and anyone looking for an easy escape to the outdoors. * Practical advice for hiking with children and engaging them in the natural world. * Includes optional turn-around points for tired feet.
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An Adirondack Sampler: Day Hikes for All Seasons
An Adirondack Sampler: Day Hikes for All Seasons showcases 50 well-planned excursions throughout the park, with difficulty ratings, distances, and elevation changes as well as descriptions. It includes photos and page maps.
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Guide to Adirondack Trails: Eastern Region
Guide to Adirondack Trails: Eastern Region explores the eastern Adirondacks from Valcour Island to Lake George, including the beautiful Pharaoh Lake Wilderness. It describes approximately 200 miles of trails and old roads, including directions to more than 40 fishing sites. A folding map is included
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Take a Hike - Family Walks in the Finger Lakes and Genesee Valley Region
The walks, rambles, strolls, and hikes in this book are designed for people who delight in exploring unique or little-known places. The trails lead through forests, fields, marshes, hills, and bogs where you can enjoy the natural world. This book will help you learn more about local history, get much-needed exercise, introduce your children to the joys of nature, or find new places to walk your dog. Don't stash it away in winter either. Many of the trails are good for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. With this guide, you'll be able to explore the Finger Lakes and Genesee Valley Region with ease and confidence. Each of the 51 walks is rated for difficulty, type of terrain, and described by length and estimated time required. In addition, you'll know how to easily find the trails and parking. Whether young or young at heart, you can enjoy the adventures this guide brings to life. * Walk the land where Seneca Indians initiated an annual ring of fire around Canandaigua Lake * Explore waterfalls in spectacular shale glens formed by centuries of water erosion * Learn what botanists see when they walk through an old growth forest * Experience a living bog.
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Easy Hikes Close to Home: New York City
New trails have been established and old trails rediscovered, making the hikes in the New York City area better than ever. Based on the authors' own research, this handy guide introduces nearly two dozen of the best easy day hikes. Filled with detailed descriptions of each trail, Easy Hikes Close to Home: New York City helps novice hikers discover their choices with clear maps and concise at-a-glance information.
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Catskill Mountain House Trail Guide
A modern-day trail guide - complete with GPS locations, newly drawn maps, and modern trail descriptions - to the 19th century trails, viewpoints, and famous locations surrounding the Catskill Mountain House (est. 1823). These were America's first recreational mountain trails, frequented by the Hudson River School painters, Romantic-era writers, and America's pioneering landscape architects. Includes reprints from two classic 19th c. Catskill guidebooks.
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Short Nature Walks on Long Island
Explore the natural beauty of Long Island - from Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in the west to Montauk Point on the eastern tip. At any season of the year you'll enjoy these 53 leisurely walks, which take you past glorious Atlantic and North Shore beaches, quaint historic towns, freshwater creeks and salt marshes, woodland preserves, and former estates. Inside this guide you'll find: a detailed map for each walk; clear directions for locating and following each trail; informal notes on geology, vegetation, and wildlife; suggestions on what to wear and what to bring; information on park hours, admission charges, and facilities.
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The newest, fully-updated, comprehensive trail guide to the Catskill Forest Preserve, edited by the authors of Catskill Day Hikes for All Seasons. This third edition has been rewritten to highlight the viewpoints and beauties of the trails. New locator maps guide the hiker, and each trail description references the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference's Catskill Trails map set. For this edition, the 345 miles of Catskill trails were re-measured, and descriptions of the trailless peaks have been clarified and expanded. Each section begins with helpful suggestions for short, moderate, and more difficult hikes.
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Walks and Rambles in the Western Hudson Valley
Anyone who is curious about the outdoors, or who seeks quiet or closeness to the landscape will find Walks And Rambles In The Western Hudson Valley a useful companion. The 38 walks described in detail range from a quarter mile to ten miles in length, and also include a range of difficulties, some wandering on gentle paths and others scrambling up the sides of mountains. The last chapter suggests 31 additional trails and parks for walkers to enjoy. The walks are grouped according to seven geological regions and give directions to the trailhead, trail mileage, and a comprehensive description of the route and sights along the way.
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Paths Less Traveled:
The Adirondack Experience for Walkers, Hikers and Climbers of All Ages
The High Peaks may be crowded, but have you discovered these 30 other uncrowded and easily accessible trails and mountains where people of all ages can enjoy themselves? Over 100 photographs and dozens of maps and drawings illustrate the scenic highlights, show you in careful detail "how to get there". Plus a special Mountain Diary is included so you can record the details of each "off the beaten path" journey.
New York Hiking Trails Guidebooks
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Hike, paddle, bike, or cross-country ski along beautiful trails through sites made famous by Adirondack guides, artists, writers, entrepreneurs, colonial settlers, and combatants in the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars. Visit abandoned iron mines and the ruins of tanneries, famous Adirondack great camps and old resorts, lost villages, Native American battlegrounds, and the homestead of John Brown, catalyst for the Civil War. Visit the scene of America's first naval battle and marvel at geological wonders like Indian Pass, Canajoharie Gorge, Chimney Mountain, and the tufa caves of Van Hornesville. This guide features detailed directions, maps, photographs, and vintage postcards. Hikes include: Valcour Island, Coon Mountain, Crown Point: Fort St. Frederic and His Majesty's Fort of Crown Point, Fort Ticonderoga, Ironville and Penfield Homestead, Rock Pond, Rogers Rock, Shelving Rock Mountain and Shelving Rock Falls, Prospect Mountain, Fort George and Bloody Pond, Cooper's Cave and Betar Byway, John Brown's Farm, Mt. Jo and Mt. Van Hoevenberg, Adirondac and Indian Pass, East Branch of the Ausable River and Adirondack Mountain Reserve, Santanoni, The Sagamore, Paul Smiths, Hooper Garnet Mine, Chimney Mountain, Kunjamuk Cave, Griffin, Griffin Falls, and Auger Falls, Moss Island, Tufa Caves and Waterfalls of Van Hornesville, Canajoharie Gorge, and Wolf Hollow.
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The Central Catskills: A Ranger's Guide to the High Peaks 
This is a comprehensive guide to the Central Catskills with keys to hikes, trail maps, and photos. Showcases Mount Tremper, Overlook, Ashokan High Point, Slide, Giant Ledge, Panther, Cornell, Wittenberg, Belleayre, Balsam, Haynes and Eagle, Big Indian, Peekamoose, Table Mountain, Dry Brook Ridge, Balsam Lake, Doubletop, plus the trail-less High Peaks.
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50 Hikes in the Lower Hudson Valley
Completely revised and updated throughout, with 10 new hikes, this bestselling hiking guide reveals 50 hikes and walks from the East Hudson Highlands to Rockland County and Harriman Park, to the West Hudson Hills, to the Catskills, the Shawangunks, and more. The outings range from short walks to hikes of 14 miles in length, and most are within a two-hour drive of New York City. An at-a-glance chart makes choosing a hike simple, and each hike features a detailed topographic map, driving directions, mileage and elevation rise, and a comprehensive trail description - with fascinating commentary on the human and natural history you'll encounter along the way. Includes 50 black and white photographs and 51 maps.
New York Hiking Trails Guidebooks
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