This was a new walk for us and I think we'll do it again in the future. There were 14 of us and it was a pretty, sunny day. It wasn't that hot but all of us had worked up a sweat by the time we finished walking.
There was no official brochure with a trail map; just two large signs in the parking area showing several different trails. In addition, I had a small map from the Poughkeepsie Journal. Thankfully, two of our group had visited the area recently and suggested we take the dirt road to the blue trail that goes along the river and we did that. The portion of the blue trail we wanted began just over the railroad crossing by the former home of the Livingston family. It is now the headquarters of the Open Space Institute.
After the walk, five of us brunched at the Hudson Hills Restaurant in Cold Spring.
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| At first we followed the road |
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| Crossing the stone culvert |
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| abandoned building of unknown origin |
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| We crossed the tracks |
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| The former Livingston home now Open Space headquarters |
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| Some of the trail was quite wide |
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| and some not so much |
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| I thought we'd be closer to the river but we were quite high above it. |
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| We went under and over quite a few trees. [There were no rocks nearby John] |
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| We crossed the stream on the way back. |
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