ABOUT THE PARKS:
Madam Brett Park - Scenic Hudson
Long Dock Park - Scenic Hudson
Dennings Point - Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries
DIRECTIONS:
GPS Coordinates 41.48900, -73.97426
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| Parking at Madam Brett Park |
TRAIL MAP:
Healthy Communities Trail Map Series - Dutchess County, NY
Madam Brett Park Trail Map - Scenic Hudson
Long Dock Park Trail Map - Scenic Hudson
HIKE DISTANCE: 5.9 miles
THE HIKE:
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| Starting from the Madam Brett Park parking lot, to the left from the kiosk... |
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| ... a short trail leads to Tioronda Falls. |
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| Retracing back to the parking lot. |
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| Continuing past the parking lot between Fishkill Creek and the 1879 Tioronda Hat Works factory ruins. |
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| The current Tioronda Hat Works residents. |
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| Continuing on the white trial to ... |
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| ... the red trail along ... |
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| ... Fishkill Marsh. |
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| Fishkill Marsh overlook deck. (My mother, just having turned 81 a few days ago, still hikes and was in town for my son's wedding.) |
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| After the red trail, the white trail leads to the only short paved trail section, the David Miller Connector Trail. |
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| This trail heads straight towards the live railroad tracks.... |
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| ... then along the tracks ... |
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| ... then ending where a left turn leads to ... |
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| ... a bridge over the railroad tracks and the Denning's Point Trail straight ahead. |
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| Crossing the railroad tracks. |
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| A female wood duck in a pond on the right. |
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| A blue jay ... |
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| ... mooning us. |
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| A left turn on the Denning's Point Trail leads to a kiosk with a view on the left and the continuation of the trail to the right. |
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| Bannerman Castle and two Great Blue Herons from the view to the left of the kiosk. |
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| On the Denning's Point Trail. |
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| Those herons are so used to trains going by it doesn't even bother them. |
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| Mount Beacon Fire Tower across the way. |
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| A side trail goes down to a beach area with views of the Hudson River. |
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| After the Dennings Point Trail, left on the Klara Sauer Trail heading north to Long Dock Park. |
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| The trail is both a gravel trail and filled in abandoned tracks. |
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| Common Grackle |
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| Momma Duck with baby ducklings. |
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| Too cute so lots of duckling pictures. |
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| Wood Thrush (?) |
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| Zoom into Newburgh, NY across the Hudson River. |
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| These pictures were all taken from a break spot we found off a side trail to the Hudson. |
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| Baltimore Oriole |
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| The Klara Sauer Trail splits. The left fork leads to a footpath not on the map that runs along the Hudson and would be the most scenic route. |
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| I believe these are juvenile starlings. |
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| More babies! |
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| Coming up on Long Dock Park. |
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| Newburgh-Beacon Bridge |
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| A Fish Crow and I only know this because of the "Uh-Uh" call, otherwise identical to the American Crow. |
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| Heading back on the Klara Sauer Trail. |
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| Red-winged Blackbird |
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| Tree Swallow |
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| Mourning Doves |
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| Back at the intersection where Denning's Point is to the right, the bridge over the railroad tracks to the left. |
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| Flowers and ferns growing out of cracks in the stone wall along the tracks. |
