No doubt about it: Denny and I are spoiled New Yorkers. We have a car. But for a long time–the first years of Escape Brooklyn, actually–we didn’t. Instead, we somehow managed to launch a travel website without one, making the most public transportation like the MetroNorth, NJ Transit trains, and even Adirondack Trailway busses to find the best hiking near NYC (amongst other things.) Every weekend for several years, we found ourselves in the pursuit of fresh air, schlepping ourselves, our hiking gear, and our weekend bags upstate via public transportation. Hell, we even camped off the MetroNorth–and you can too! Every spring, as the weather inevitably warms, our inbox inevitably fills with emails asking for the best hiking near NYC using public transportation. There’s a lot of these “best hiking near NYC” lists floating around out there, but we created yet another because we don’t believe that many of the authors of those articles actually stepped foot on a trail. (Kudos if they did, but we find it hard to believe that they were able to complete all the hikes in the huge, overwhelming lists that they create.) Even more frustrating, these articles are often missing key information–getting to the trailhead from the train is a common one–and ...
The post The Best Hiking Near NYC That You Don’t Need a Car For appeared first on ESCAPE BROOKLYN.