ECOS: The Environmental Clearinghouse
May 10, 2025

Spring Walk: Vale Park and Cemetery, Schenectady

Vale Urban Farm

This walk will focus on trees, wildflowers, ferns, and mushrooms (if we find any!). Vale Cemetery is an historic "rural" cemetery that opened in 1857 with the planting of over 1,000 trees. Today, it is [...]

Spring Walk: Winn Preserve, Knox

Winn Preserve - Knox, NY Winn Preserve, Street Road, Altamont, Knox, NY

This is a beautiful wooded preserve with low to medium-effort trails that wind through ferns and shady forests. Limestone fissures, rock outcroppings, and cliffs demonstrate the limestone karst geology of the Helderberg Escarpment. Leader: Debra [...]

Spring Walk: Bennett Hill Preserve, Feura Bush

Bennett Hill Preserve Bennett Hill Rd., Feura Bush, NY

This is a 155-acre property managed by the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy. It has excellent views of the Helderberg Mountains to the north and Albany to the east. There are three miles of trails, some [...]

Spring Walk: Pine Hollow Arboretum, Slingerlands

Pine Hollow 34 Pine Hollow Rd., Slingerlands, NY, United States

If we’ve timed this right we’ll be able to wander through magnolias in bloom, as well as exploring various plant regions from Europe to Asia to America. Easy hiking, mostly level, though it might be [...]

Spring Walk: Hop Field Trail, John Boyd Thacher State Park, Altamont

John Boyd Thacher State Park 830 Thacher Park Road, Voorheesville, NY

We begin this hike through a small picnic area and up a brief incline along a fast-running stream and waterfall. This orange trail intersects the yellow trail, which loops around a wetland for about a [...]