Empire State Trail Again

The Empire State Trail is a 750-mile multi-use trail/route that has two branches like a T through New York. The north-south branch goes from New York City (Battery Park) to Montreal. The east-west branch goes from Buffalo to Albany, largely along the route of the Erie Canal.

I've now encountered it enough times that I'm trying to add up what I've done of it. We did another 2-mile piece today along the Hudson River.

The ice on the river is breaking up and because the air temperature made it over 50 degrees, it created strange moving fog banks that were really interesting to watch.

I loved this spot.

This area is being made into a state park, Sojourner Truth State Park. Marie and I hiked in the area last year, and the jagged edge of the cliff in this picture is where we took pictures from last year.

Coming back, we also saw the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge through the fog. Marie and I hiked that in 2023- link below.

This whole area was noted for brickyards which created most of the bricks that built New York City. These two pictures are part of a factory and smokestack from a brick works.

Here's what I know I've hiked of the Empire State Trail:
about 1 mile to Rondout Creek
2 miles at Sojourner Truth park
2 miles Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge
1 mile Historic Hudson Walkway
about 18 miles from Canastota to Rome, concurrent with NCT
? on Conservation Trail near Buffalo/Niagara (need to compare maps when home)

So total is something approaching 30 miles. I don't really have a goal (they don't offer a patch or even a sticker) but hey... I like making connections

We went to church, hiked, and crashed. I felt like cr*p all day and Marie didn't sleep well last night, so we read a little and napped.

Miles walked in 2026: 74.6

Empire State Trail, Sojourner Truth State park out and back 4.2 miles

See Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge See Conservation Trail See Back to Canals