Tag: outdoors

Spring pool. (photos by Rich Parisio) To climb a crag like Bonticou is an exciting outdoor experience, but to view ...

Wood frog. (photo by Rich Parisio) On Sunday night I went out in the rain to witness a ritual far ...

Million-dollar view at Spring Farm. (photo by Rich Parisio) To walk along one of the hedgerows of red cedar trees ...

Sam at Sam’s Point. (photo by Rich Parisio) To climb in elevation is equivalent, at least in terms of the ...

Aqueduct abutment. (photo by Rich Parisio) High Falls is a place of two trails, and both have stories to tell. ...

Frozen marsh and oxbow. Though it's natural, in late February and early March, to anticipate the coming of spring, yet ...

View of Near Trapps from the Foothills. (photo by Richard Parisio) Among the many kinds of walks we take, the ...

Lookout from rustic pavilion. (photo by Richard Parisio) Poets' Walk is one of those places in the Hudson Valley that ...

Cliff aged with icicles. (photo by Richard Parisio) For outdoor adventure close to home, mingled with scenic grandeur, nothing beats ...

Pitch pine on a bluff above the Hudson River. Had I stumbled upon Locust Grove in a remote region, its ...

Shawangunk Ridge from the Grasslands Refuge. (photo by Richard Parisio) One can take a short walk, close to home, in ...

My favorite place for a winter walk is where land and water meet. In our region, this boundary zone is ...

To enter the woods after the season's first snowstorm is to meet winter on its own terms and to glimpse ...

Photo of Slabsides by Julie O’Connor. It isn’t easy locating Slabsides, the log cabin built by literary naturalist John Burroughs ...

Boating on the Hudson, near the Saugerties Lighthouse. (photo by Dion Ogust) Is there anything not to love about this ...

Enjoying the Dubois Farm in Highland. (Photo by Sheila Mannese) It seems as though nearly every hamlet in southern Ulster ...

Photo by Rich Corozine Apples were first ingested in Central Asia, most likely in what is now Kazakhstan. Some religions ...

Photo by Will Dendis So you want to do some leaf-peeping? It’s an ancient custom hereabouts. In fact cars line ...

Even the most casual reader of local news in the Hudson Valley can’t miss the increasing emphasis on farm-to-table eating, ...

Declan zooms through the tree canopy at Catamount Aerial Park, a ropes and zipline course set in the trees of ...