Trails with Tales: History Hikes through the Capital Region, Saratoga, Berkshires, Catskills & Hudson Valley
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Trails with Tales: History Hikes through the Capital Region, Saratoga, Berkshires, Catskills & Hudson Valley
GUIDE
Thirty nature treks, selected for their natural, stand-alone beauty, are enhanced by tangible silhouettes of a fascinating past, from early Native Americans and Colonial settlers to the Industrial Revolution and Victorian-era grand hotels. Hike to waterfalls, mountains, escarpments, lakes, sculpted rocks, ponds, rivers, islands, caves, balanced rocks, geysers, and deep gorges while visiting the sites of famous battles of the Revolutionary War, ghostly industrial ruins, a Moorish-style castle, views and vistas made world-famous by AmericaÂfs greatest painters, vanished Shaker communities, great estates of the ÂgGilded Age,Âh a working lighthouse, and ÂgNew YorkÂfs Mount Rushmore.Âh HIKES INCLUDE ÂÂœ Starks Knob & Schuylerville Champlain Canal Towpath ÂÂœ Saratoga National Historic Park ÂÂœ Geyser Park ÂÂœ Vischer Ferry Nature & Historic Preserve ÂÂœ Peebles Island State Park ÂÂœ Oakwood Cemetery ÂÂœ Burden Pond Environmental Park ÂÂœ Ann Lee Pond ÂÂœ Indian Ladder ÂÂœ Bennett Hill Preserve ÂÂœ Clarksville Cave Preserve ÂÂœ Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve ÂÂœ Balanced Rocks ÂÂœ Shaker Mountain ÂÂœ No Bottom Pond ÂÂœ Tyringham Cobble ÂÂœ Ice Glen & LauraÂfs Tower ÂÂœ Ashintully Estate & McLennan Preserve ÂÂœ VromanÂfs Nose ÂÂœ Pratt Rock ÂÂœ Lindenwald & Martin Van Buren Nature Trail ÂÂœ Rogers Island ÂÂœ Olana ÂÂœ Montgomery Place ÂÂœ Ravena Falls ÂÂœ Hudson River School Art Trail ÂÂœ Catskill Mountain House Escarpment ÂÂœ Saugerties Lighthouse ÂÂœ Overlook Mountain ÂÂœ Sky Top & Mohonk Lake