Essex, New York Guide and Community Blog
Champlain Area Trails creates and maintains free cross-country hiking/skiing/snowshoeing trails in the Champlain Valley of New York State's Adirondack Park. Rapidly approaching its goal of a 30-mile trail loop between Westport and Essex, New York, Champlain Area Trails pass through a rich tapestry of preserved wildlife habitats, pastoral farmland, historic villages, and scenic woodlands. The following posts featured or mentioned CATS (Champlain Area Trails). Enjoy!
Saturday, May 18th 12:30-4:30 pm Meet at Black Kettle Nature Trail Are you ready for the next Champlain Area Trails (CATS) Volunteer Trail Project? CATS welcomes people of all ages to come out to help clear the trail. Volunteers are free to stay until the end or help out for just part of the project. Here [...]
Celebrate Champlain Area Trails Saturday, June 1, 2013 4-6pm At Block House Farm in Essex, NY. Get together with Champlain Area Trails (CATS) to honor National Trails Day! Celebrate our local network of trails maintained by Champlain Area Trails on Saturday, June 1 from 4-6pm at Block House Farm in Essex, NY. The featured speaker at the event will [...]
Champlain Area Trails (CATS) is hosting a photography contest! Are you a photographer? Or do you like taking pictures? If so it’s time to take advantage of your talents and enter CATS Photo and Caption Contest! How to Enter CATS Photo Contest They want your best and most beautiful or the most fun pictures you’ve taken while traversing [...]
Saturday, April 20 at 12:30 pm Champlain Area Trails (CATS) is putting the final touches on a new hiking/skiing trail that will be an important link in the system of trails connecting Westport to Essex, NY. If you’re interested in being part of the creation of “Farm and Forest Trail,” then learn where and when [...]
Sunday, March 24 at 3pm Water Proof: Are rising water and shrinking ice the new norm for the North Country? Lecture at Whallonsburg Grange Hall The last two years of extreme weather is – according to the models, studies and historical records – what climate change in this region looks like. This program will look at [...]
Champlain Area Trails (CATS) has recently gained access to 319 acres of the highlands, located off of Rte. 22 between the towns of Essex and Willsboro! Donated through a conservation easement by landowners Dick and Leanna DeNeale the land will be preserved for environmental and agricultural purposes. Here is a word from the DeNeales: “Years ago, [...]
Boquet Mountain Boondoggle by Betsy Tisdale is the final story of ten entered in this round of the Champlain Area Trails (CATS) writing contest. Voting ends today, so if you haven’t made your choice you better hurry and vote in the contest! Hiking before the Champlain Area Trails In the 1980′s, Bestsy Tisdale was working on a hiking guide to the Eastern Adirondacks [...]
A Visceral Acknowledgement by Jessica Wimett is another one of the stories entered in this round of the Champlain Area Trails (CATS) writing contest. If you haven’t yet, you should go vote in the contest! Voting ends tomorrow! Wimett discusses the changing of the seasons in a very poignant way. She goes on a hike on the Split Rock Wild Forest Trail with her [...]
A Place to Unwind by Jillian S. Getman is another one of the stories entered in this round of the Champlain Area Trails (CATS) writing contest. If you haven’t yet, you should go vote in the contest! Getman writes about a vacation to the Champlain Valley that fills her with peace, and is an escape from the high-traffic stress of her life [...]
Kathryn Cramer‘s The Trail Was Soft and Mossy is another one of the stories entered in this round of the Champlain Area Trails (CATS) writing contest. If you haven’t yet, you should go vote in the contest! This is the story of a little misadventure Cramer and her two children have while mistakenly hiking on the wrong CATS trail with some shoe choice [...]
