Alternatively, day hikers may want to take on the LP loop at Rockland Lake, which is an approximately 4 mile lower elevation walk with great lookouts for bird watching and barbeque grills to make lunch. One of the most popular Rockland County summits along the trail is Hook Mountain where day hikers may take a 5.8 mile loop down to Nyack Beach to picnic at the Hudson River. These miles of the LP in Rockland County offer panoramic views of the Hudson Valley in addition to proximity to diverse marshes and forestlands. Long Path autumn walk in Blauvelt State Park The LP is easily followed with its aqua trail markers, and while the path is popular with New York City residents, as was Schaefer’s intent, the LP is also an opportunity for locals to explore the biodiversity of their community. The Long Path (the LP) enters Rockland County by way of the NJ state line and includes Tallman Mountain State Park, Clausland Mountain Park, Tackamack Town Park, Blauvelt State Park, Sean Hunter Ryan Memorial Park, along with many other local trails and outlooks. The area chosen for the path runs alongside and across former and current indigenous communities who used the trail for travel and trading, most notably the Schoharie Reservoir, which is part of the New York City water system. Torrey supported Schaefer’s initiative early on and is memorialized along the trail at a site on the Long Mountain and through the archives of his New York Post column, “The Long Brown Path.” Former President of the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference Raymond H. In 1991, a few years before his death, Schaefer wrote an unpublished booklet called the “Field Guide to the Landmarks of the Long Path of New York,” which includes topographic maps for 84 notable sites along the trail. Like many enthusiasts of end-to-end hiking, Schaefer saw a critical connection to the body being in movement in wildlands and self discovery, and he sought to encourage people to use the Long Path to do just that. The Long Path route snakes through five New York State parks and the Rockland County towns of Orangetown, Clarkstown, Haverstraw, Stony Point and Ramapo.

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