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General News: New Trail Inaugurated at Cornwall Landing
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| Gary Haugland inaugurated the new trail last June. |
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| Gary Haugland is the chair of the Highlands Trail |
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| Lydia Adams Davis sang a song before the hike |
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| The hikers head into the wooded trail |
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| The new trail is highlighted in blue |
June 03, 2007
Walkers and hikers in Cornwall have a new trail to explore following the inauguration of the one-and-a-half mile long segment of the Highlands Trail that now brings you right to the banks of the Hudson River at Cornwall Landing.
On Sunday afternoon, Gary Haugland, a Cornwall resident and a leader in the New Jersey-New York Trails Conference, ceremoniously hammered a teal-and-white trail marker onto a tree on lower Dock Hill Road. Moments later, a dozen people followed the trail up along Dock Hill Road, crossed Hudson Street and headed off into the woods near Donahue Farm.
For more than a decade, Haugland has been pursuing a plan to connect the Highlands Trail, which runs from New Jersey, through Sterling Forest to Schunnemunk Mountain to Black Rock Forest and Storm King Mountain State Park. He worked with the Highland Coalition to get some federal money and with other local groups, including Scenic Hudson, to connect the trail to the shores of the Hudson. He forsees a day when the trail will go to the Delaware River in the south and northwest to the Connecticut border.
A couple of dozen people came to learn about the new trail and Haugland reminded them how Cornwall Landing has been transformed over the past fifty years. “This was a very industrial area, with 14 train tracks side-by-side,” he told the group. “And then with Con Edison wanting to build the power plant, it’s amazing that we have a park here today instead of a nightmare.”
Haugland seems happy, perhaps because instead of nightmares he is pursuing more hiking dreams, including a loop trail that would run south of the Cornwall Yacht Club onto Dean’s Point.
Storm King Adventure Tours, the new outdoors outfitter in the village, has pledgd to maintain the newest section of the Highlands trail for the next year. On Saturday, six teenagers Kelly Seiz, Paul Seiz, Kelly Nolan, Nina Gioia, Nick Adamo, and Andre Ruggiero, cleaned up the trail for the opening day.
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