Reseña del editor:
Thirty nature treks, selected for their natural, stand-alone beauty, are enhanced by tangible silhouettes of a fascinating past, from early Native Americans and Colonial settlers to the Industrial Revolution and Victorian-era grand hotels. Hike to waterfalls, mountains, escarpments, lakes, sculpted rocks, ponds, rivers, islands, caves, balanced rocks, geysers, and deep gorges while visiting the sites of famous battles of the Revolutionary War, ghostly industrial ruins, a Moorish-style castle, views and vistas made world-famous by America fs greatest painters, vanished Shaker communities, great estates of the gGilded Age, h a working lighthouse, and gNew York fs Mount Rushmore. h HIKES INCLUDE Starks Knob & Schuylerville Champlain Canal Towpath Saratoga National Historic Park Geyser Park Vischer Ferry Nature & Historic Preserve Peebles Island State Park Oakwood Cemetery Burden Pond Environmental Park Ann Lee Pond Indian Ladder Bennett Hill Preserve Clarksville Cave Preserve Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve Balanced Rocks Shaker Mountain No Bottom Pond Tyringham Cobble Ice Glen & Laura fs Tower Ashintully Estate & McLennan Preserve Vroman fs Nose Pratt Rock Lindenwald & Martin Van Buren Nature Trail Rogers Island Olana Montgomery Place Ravena Falls Hudson River School Art Trail Catskill Mountain House Escarpment Saugerties Lighthouse Overlook Mountain Sky Top & Mohonk Lake
Biografía del autor:
Russell Dunn is the author of an ongoing series of guidebooks to the waterfalls of eastern New York State, including Adirondack Waterfall Guide: New York fs Cool Cascades (Black Dome Press Corp., 2003), Catskill Region Waterfall Guide: Cool Cascades of the Catskills & Shawangunks (Black Dome Press Corp., 2004), and Hudson Valley Waterfall Guide: From Saratoga and the Capital Region to the Highlands and Palisades (Black Dome Press Corp., 2005). He is also the author of Adventures Around the Great Sacandaga Lake (Nicholas K. Burns Publishing, 2002).
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