Staying a step ahead of local trails

Dave Webber has his own hiking trail. Sort of.

For the years the Poughkeepsie resident has helped maintain “his” trail, Mossy Glen, at the Minnewaska State Park Preserve in Kerhonkson, Ulster County.

“It’s my favorite,” said Webber, who volunteers for and manages volunteers with the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference. “It’s a wonderful trail that starts out through a lot of Mountain Laurel,” he said, and winds along the Peters Kill stream for about a mile. “It’s usually shady and cool on summer days with lots of nice little spots alongside the stream.”

Such a sense of ownership of trails and park areas is common among the many hundreds of volunteers that help maintain them in our area. Most, after all, spend a good deal of time trimming, grooming and otherwise taking care of them.

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