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Following the O&W story near Wurtsboro
The Long Path passes through a landscape shaped by the former O&W railroad.
Read the story →Walk through history.
Move between centuries. Follow your location over an old map, then discover the stories behind the landscape.
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Hudson Valley
High Falls: understand the locks after your hike
A canal-history visit can explain the valley you crossed on a ridge hike.
Read the story →Catskills
How to read an old mountain map on a new hike
Learn to compare roads, buildings and contours without turning a historic map into modern directions.
Read the story →Shawangunks
Mining history, viewed from the public trail
The ridge’s industrial past is part of its story, but former mine areas are not an exploration destination.
Read the story →Catskills
North–South Lake and the grand-hotel landscape
Historic routes around North–South Lake reveal an earlier era of mountain tourism.
Read the story →Shawangunks
Wurtsboro: a canal is not a railroad
The D&H Canal and the O&W railroad tell different chapters of this valley’s working history.
Read the story →The launch collection covers parts of the Catskills and southern Shawangunks. More areas can be added by the administrator as maps and sources are verified.
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