In 2015, I did the Avon 39 walk in New York, along with a group of my friends. (This was years before the Avon Corporation decided to cancel all future walks.) I was expecting the terrain to be relatively flat. As I learned, it was anything but flat! Still, it was a great way to see NYC at the street level.
I walk all over Manhattan but haven’t explored much at all in the Bronx. If you want suggestions I can help with Brooklyn and Queens! And after that Jersey City to the George Washington Bridge with its fantastic new bike walk path!
Deirdre, I'd love to return and do a Brooklyn to Queens thru-hike sometime. Especially since I've only done 2/5 boroughs thus far. And I'll definitely come knocking when that trip materializes.
Based in the UK - southern England. Lots of good trails (some VERY old trails) which crisscross everywhere. Every summer for the past decade or so I do a walk with some former colleagues - it's very civilised: around 15 miles/day, a pub for lunch, a lovely inn or B&B for dinner and the night before repeating it for another day or two. It's great - we've done the South Downs Way, the Ridgeway, everywhere you can imagine in the Chilterns and loads of other places. Looking to go up to Scotland in the next year or so (we've all got very different commitments and none of us are getting any younger), but this summer it's 50 miles along the Thames. Very different landscape from yours - and from the Western NC mountains where I grew up!
In 2015, I did the Avon 39 walk in New York, along with a group of my friends. (This was years before the Avon Corporation decided to cancel all future walks.) I was expecting the terrain to be relatively flat. As I learned, it was anything but flat! Still, it was a great way to see NYC at the street level.
Seriously. The roly-poly topography of NY makes me all the more impressed by the historic density of the city.
I walk all over Manhattan but haven’t explored much at all in the Bronx. If you want suggestions I can help with Brooklyn and Queens! And after that Jersey City to the George Washington Bridge with its fantastic new bike walk path!
Deirdre, I'd love to return and do a Brooklyn to Queens thru-hike sometime. Especially since I've only done 2/5 boroughs thus far. And I'll definitely come knocking when that trip materializes.
I’ll be thinking up some interesting routes!
Yet another great post that makes me wish I lived where you do!
Thank you, Bryan. Where are you based these days? The trails (including some newer ones) will be waiting for you next time you're in the northeast!
Based in the UK - southern England. Lots of good trails (some VERY old trails) which crisscross everywhere. Every summer for the past decade or so I do a walk with some former colleagues - it's very civilised: around 15 miles/day, a pub for lunch, a lovely inn or B&B for dinner and the night before repeating it for another day or two. It's great - we've done the South Downs Way, the Ridgeway, everywhere you can imagine in the Chilterns and loads of other places. Looking to go up to Scotland in the next year or so (we've all got very different commitments and none of us are getting any younger), but this summer it's 50 miles along the Thames. Very different landscape from yours - and from the Western NC mountains where I grew up!