Hiking through History New York by Randi Minetor

Author:Randi Minetor
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781493019540
Publisher: Falcon Guides

If you get to the end of the road and wish you had had a more challenging hike, you’ll find trailheads to four popular Adirondack hikes just inside the woods. In particular, you can make the hike to the summit of Mount Marcy, New York State’s tallest peak, beginning here at Tahawus.

Miles and Directions

0.0 Start from where you parked your vehicle. With the interpretive sign for the Upper Iron Works at your right, follow the crushed-stone path along the fence to the next platform. You can view the furnace and wheelhouse from here, as well as the headwaters of the Hudson River. Continue around the furnace for additional interpretive signs. When you are ready, return to where you parked your car, and begin walking north on the road toward the remains of the buildings.

0.1 Pass the trailhead for the High Peaks Trail.

0.5 Here is the house where then vice president Theodore Roosevelt stayed while he vacationed with his family in the Adirondacks. It’s the only preserved building among the Tahawus ruins to date.

0.6 Reach the ruins of three other buildings. They are homes and perhaps an office.

0.7 Another collapsed building lay here, with its two chimneys intact as of this writing. Continue to the end of the road, where you will see a second High Peaks trailhead—this one for hikes to Indian Pass, Lake Colden Dam, Duck Hole, and Mt. Marcy. When you are ready, turn around and head back down the road to your vehicle.

1.4 Arrive back at your vehicle.

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