Re: [at-l] North Country Trail/Long Path

[Jennifer Sawyer <jdsawyer@bu.edu>]

Hey, I grew up on the Long Path.  Right there up the northern Catskills.
I had no idea it went into Yankee Stadium.  The INJUSTICE!!  (Please,
please, please don't tell my Boston friends that I have such an unsavory
... or unsaviory ... connection in my past!!)

:) Pooh

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 DataBook97@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 11/8/99 7:42:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> PaddyBeer@aol.com writes:
> 
> << The North Country Trail enters into NY State from PA and is the same as 
> two 
>  other trails for the first few miles or so.  One of these other trail, the 
>  Finger Lakes Trail, runs east - west until it hits the Long Path in the 
>  Catskills in the area of Denning Leanto.  The Long Path goes North - SOuth 
>  and right now the south end goes all the way to the Bear Mt Bridge, which is 
>  the bridge to take over the Hudson River to go to Yankee Stadium.  Anyway, 
> as 
>  the Long Path is heading toward Yankee Stadium it intersects with the 
>  Appalachian Trail in Harriman State Park.  When completed, as the Long Path 
>  heads north (away from Yankee Stadium), it goes through the Catskills and 
>  ultimately, when completed, will hook up with the Northville - Lake Placid 
>  Trail that is basically a 112 mile or so lowland trail in the ADKs. >>
> 
>     Okay, a few corrections here.  First of all, the Denning Lean-to no 
> longer exists.  It is being torn down by the DEC since it was replaced by a 
> new shelter further up the mountain.  However, it is true that the Finger 
> Lakes Trail reaches the Long Path near the former location of this shelter.
> 
>     The south end of the Long Path is at the George Washington Bridge, not at 
> the Bear Mountain Bridge.  And it is the GWB that you would take if you 
> wanted for some reason to go to Yankee Stadium (although I somehow don't 
> associate the Long Path with Yankee Stadium in any way).  
> 
>     Whether the Long Path will ever hook up with the Northville-Lake Placid 
> Trail is a matter of dispute.  The Adirondack Mountain Club is very concerned 
> about overuse of trails in the Adirondacks and has opposed various proposals 
> to designate portions of their trails as routes of other long-distance 
> trails. The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference would like to see the Long 
> Path continue up to the Adirondacks, but we are a close ally of the 
> Adirondack Mountain Club and want to work with them, not against them.  So 
> the exact route of any extension of the Long Path into the Adirondacks has 
> yet to be determined.
> 
>         Daniel Chazin
>         Teaneck, NJ
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