[at-l] Closest takeout point to NY City

[adufresne@carnegiehall.org (Dufresne, Aimee)]

you can hop off at bear mountain (45 min drive from nyc).  but beware of
massive summertime crowds (there's a pool, bball courts, an inn, etc.)  but
easy meeting at the ranger station at the base or by the lookout tower at
top of mtn (car accessible).  take lower level of GWbrige to Palisades and
follow surprisingly well-marked signs to bear mtn.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Heffington [mailto:Phil.Heffington@oc.edu]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 4:05 PM
To: AT- L Mailing List (E-mail)
Subject: [at-l] Closest takeout point to NY City


My daughter and her husband just moved back to NYC and we were
discussing the possibility of me taking a day or two off from my section
hike this year as it passes the closest to them.

What would be the closest/most convenient takeout point to them as I
hike the AT through New York state?  I'm heading northbound.  From a
roadmap it looks like somewhere close to where the AT crosses the
Palisades Parkway south of West Point.  I can't get a feel for what the
trail looks like in that section, however, and how easy it would be to
agree on a point where a hiker could meet up with a car coming from NYC.
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