Essex, New York Guide and Community Blog
Champlain Area Trails creates and maintains free cross-country hiking/skiing/snowshoeing trails in the Adirondacks' Champlain Valley. Rapidly approaching its goal of a 30-mile trail loop between Westport and Essex, New York Champlain Area Trails trails pass through a rich tapestry of preserved wildlife habitats, pastoral farmland, historic villages, and scenic woodlands. The following posts featured or mentioned Champlain Area Trails (CATS). Enjoy!
Thursday, May 23 Start at 10:oo am Meet behind the old Willsboro School 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. [...]
Champlain Area Trails (CATS) is developing a new hiking/skiing trail that will be an important link in the system of trails connecting Westport to Essex, NY. The new trail will be named “Farm and Forest Trail.” CATS invites volunteers to help create the trail on the afternoon of Saturday, February 16. “This trail will link Wadhams to the Bobcat [...]
The winners of the Fall 2012 Champlain Area Trails (CATS) writing contest have been announced! Julia Dixon‘s A Coon Mountain Hike is the overwhelming winner of the online people’s choice award, and the grand prize goes to Paula Castner for The Experiment. Congratulations to Paula Castner, of Lancaster, Massachusetts, won the $500 first place prize in the Champlain Area Trails Travel Writing Contest. [...]
Champlain Area Trails will be hosting a “Welcome to Winter Hike” at the new Hidden Quarry Trail on Saturday, December 15 at 1:00 p.m. Hidden Quarry Trail (0.8 mi loop, easy) is a trailhead located on east side of Rt 22 about 4.5 miles south of downtown Westport and 5.5 miles north of Port Henry. In [...]
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 [...]
Another one of the stories entered in this round of the Champlain Area Trails (CATS) writing contest is E. C. Hughes‘ Visiting Coon Mountain: A Walking, Hiking and Boating Adventure! If you haven’t yet, you should go vote in the contest. Voting ends today! Hughes and a friend decide to travel to Essex, NY, to hike Coon Mountain. Taking the ferry [...]
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 [...]
Another one of the stories entered in this round of the Champlain Area Trails (CATS) writing contest is Paula Castner‘s The Experiment. If you haven’t yet, you should go vote in the contest! I love the way Castner begins her aptly named story by actually introducing her tale as the parameters of an experiment! The grand experiment began six summers ago: Could [...]
