Trail News

Construction is under way on the final phase of renovations at the Darlington Schoolhouse.  The 1890s building, which sat vacant for roughly two decades, was purchased jointly by the township…

February 4, 2014: The Mamakating Town Board voted unanimously to endorse a casino at the former Shawanga Lodge site. January 21, 2014: At a workshop session of the Mamakating Town Board…

Bear Mountain State Park’s Perkins Memorial Drive closed for the season on December 2, 2013. Harriman Section: Tiorati Brook Road, Arden Valley Road, Exit 16 on the Palisades Interstate Parkway…

Wielding plastic spoons, about 100 people ceremoniously broke ground Thursday on the final phase of restoring the Darlington Schoolhouse. The historic building is being renovated, modernized and expanded so that…

The interior renovation of the Darlington Schoolhouse, which will complete its transformation into the New York/New Jersey Trail Conference headquarters, is expected to begin later this month and be completed…

The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference is excited to announce the publication of Hike of the Week: A Year of Hikes in the New York Metro Area. This new book contains…

Peter Dolan, a 2010 graduate of Bucknell University and a resident of Greenwood Lake, NY, has joined the staff of the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference as coordinator of our New…

Longtime supporters of the New York/New Jersey Trail Conference gathered Sunday at Sun Valley Farm on Ramapo Valley Road to help raise the $100,000 the organization needs to secure a…

The NYNJTC unveiled a thermometer Wednesday to track its progress toward raising the money needed to restore the Darlington Schoolhouse in Mahwah for use as its future Headquarters.

To hike them, it helps to have a map. Lucky for you, the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference just released a line of maps of the hikes to each of the five fire towers.…

STERLING FOREST STATE PARK: The NY–NJ Trail Conference has agreed with New York State Parks to develop a volunteer-based Back Country Trails Restoration Program in the Sterling Forest State Park.…

In the first half of the 20th century, observers stationed in fire towers across the Catskill Mountains scanned the region looking for signs of forest fires.   Today, more remote…

Eighteen volunteers from the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference made quick work of building a new trail bridge over Platte Kill Creek in the Platte Clove Preserve on the last…