The Wildcat Mountain Trail, Sterling Forest State Park’s fourth new hiking trail, was finished and opened to the public in October. It provides a footpath link between Harriman-Bear Mountain and Sterling Forest state parks, starting in one and ending in the other.

From its southern terminus near Route 17A, the 3-mile-long trail climbs Wildcat Mountain, affording a broad vista to the south and east. It then proceeds north at an elevation of about 1,000 feet, providing views of Sterling Forest to the west and the Indian Hill property to the north, and then descends to terminate on Old Orange Turnpike (County Route 19) just across from the historic Southfields Furnace. (See the Trail Conference’s Sterling Forest Trails map, northeast corner, and Harriman-Bear Mountain Trails map #4, grid B-3.)

Jan/Feb 2001 Trail Walker