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New York-New Jersey Trail Conference This site loaded with helpful information for the hiker that wants to help maintain and build marked hiking trails and protect open space in the bi-state region. The conference has 85 hiking clubs and other organizations with ten thousand interested folks. Links to publications, calendar, trails, grants, market places, workshops etc. How To Develop a Foot Trail in Your Town This article is a short history of how a few folks in the town of Victor got together and organized and planned trails for their area. Hikes with kids in mind are included on the links at this web site about hiking
in western New York. When you link to With Kids it takes you to a page with
a drop down menu of a list of hikes that are great for taking along your children.
The featured hike in Stiglmier Park on Losson Road in Cheektowaga had a great
photo essay to go along with the story of a new mother’s first hiking
outing with her infant. This site’s link WNY Hikes has a drop down menu with over a dozen hikes listed that you can click on for more info. The featured hiking trail - Letchworth State Park - is accompanied by a photo of a cascading waterfall-which makes you want to click for more info. Wow –the pictures are fabulous! Letchworth State Park is known as the Grand Canyon of the East. The Genesee River cuts through this area surrounded on either side by six hundred foot high walls as the river curves and winds through this western New York area. There are 26 hiking trails in the park. The recommended hike for first timers to this area is the 7 mile Gorge Trail that has breathtaking views as it follows the edge of the gorge.
Other links on this page take you to Excursions with its Featured Excursion –Niagara Falls (lots more great photos), and Other Hikes with a drop down menu listing hikes outside of the western New York area. More good photos found at these links.
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