ABOUT THE PARK: Harriman State Park - New York State Office of Parks, Recreation as well as Historic Preservation
DIRECTIONS: GPS Coordinates 41.229817, -74.060450
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| Parking on Gate Hill Road. |
TRAIL MAP: Northern Harriman Bear Mountain Trails Map #119 - NY/NJ Trail Conference
HIKE DISTANCE: 9.6 miles
THE HIKE:  |
| Because of wintertime route closures, otherwise heavily trafficked roads tin live on used to link trails amongst no traffic! |
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| From the parking lot, plough left on Gate Hill Road as well as hence correct at the opening inward the guardrail earlier the bridge. |
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| Yellow goes up, to a greater extent than steeply towards the move past times ... |
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| ... to Irish Gaelic Potato. An unmarked trail to the left comes upwards from the Lake Welch camping ground expanse - that would live on our provide route. But now, correct on yellow. |
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| The Hudson is somewhere inward the distance inward all that fog. |
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| Upper Pound Swamp downward below. |
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| Taking an unmarked trail to the correct a curt distance ... |
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| ... for a improve stance of Upper Pound Swamp. |
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| Continuing on yellow. |
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| Yellow turns correct on Lake Welch Drive ... |
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| ... simply because the leave of absence off of the Palisades Interstate Parkway is closed for the wintertime ... |
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| ... nosotros turned left as well as route walked. It's non every 24-hour interval a domestic dog tin safely walk upwards the middle of a road. |
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| Keeping correct to Tiorati Brook Road which is also closed. |
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| In instance that firstly barrier did non halt anyone, this 1 would. |
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| This route walk was real pleasant as well as scenic amongst no traffic. |
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| We should bring turned earlier this duo simply did non reckon the trail. |
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| Instead nosotros turned later on the duo along this real scenic stretch of the bluish trail. |
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| We weren't also far inward earlier I realized this was the incorrect way. |
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| Heading dorsum as well as crossing the duo to the other side ... |
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| ... where the trail markers are non every bit obvious simply they are there. |
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| At the destination of bluish ... |
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| ... left on ruddy cross. |
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| For tired hikers? |
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| Crossing a meadow to ... |
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| ... Tiorati Brook Road ... |
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| ... where ruddy cross continues on the other side. |
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| Balloon #55 of the year. |
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| Coming upwards on piles of mine tailings as well as hence ... |
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| ... Hansenclever Mine. |
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| Just later on the mine, ruddy cross veers right, nosotros stayed to the left on unmarked Hansenclever Road. |
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| Keeping direct on Hansenclever Road when bluish crosses over. |
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| Hansenclever Road leads all the agency to ... |
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| ... a left on Lake Welch Road. |
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| We turned correct into Lake Welch ... |
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| ... as well as hence kept to the left unopen to the lake. |
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| Lake Welch |
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| We worked our agency left through the campground ... |
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| ... to the unmarked trail direct ahead. |
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| A correct on to some other unmarked trail, as well as hence a left at a fork ... |
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| ... as well as nosotros were coming upwards on Irish Gaelic Potato. |
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| From Irish Gaelic Potato, correct on yellowish to retrace from the firstly of the hike. |
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| Way upwards ahead, the solely other hiker nosotros encountered. |
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| A left on Gate Hill Road ... |
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| ... dorsum to where nosotros parked. Everyone else parked at that topographic point nigh probable went to Jackie Jones Mountain, which is to a greater extent than popular. |
