[at-l] Closest takeout point to NY City

[papa_bear_nyc@yahoo.com (Papa Bear)]

Hi

I'd say you have 3 choices, probably depending on when you hit the area.

1) Bus from Bear Mountain
2) train from East side of Hudson (just a few miles further).  There is a
weekend station on the trail (Manitou) and full service stations a few miles
in either direction (near route 9)
3) train from Pawling area.  Similarly there is a weekend station on the
trail (AT station) plus full service stations north of south a few miles
(near route 22).

Check the Thru Hikers Companion where it's all described.  Some one recently
posted a link to an online version of same:
http://www.aldha.org/comp_pdf.htm  See pages 102, 103 and 106.

Pb



----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Heffington" <Phil.Heffington@oc.edu>
To: "AT- L Mailing List (E-mail)" <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 4:04 PM
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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