Schedule for September 2022 IHC home page
Sunday September 4,
2022
TBA
Meetup
Moderate
Sunday September 11, 2022
High Point Hike
Moderately Strenuous
Let us see
which trails we can find today to hike on today in the highest NJ Park. Rain, cancels this hike.
Leaders: Mike Roulier 201-522-0259 MROULIER@PATELLAWOOD.COM
Jill Wilson 973-879-0531 SUNSHYN812@GMAIL.COM
Meet:
8:30 AM High Point State Park, AT Parking
Lot, Rt-23, Wantage, NJ 07461
From
I-287 Exit 52: Take Rt-23 North 34 mi to High Point State Park.
Almost to the Top of Rt-23 hill, on the left is the AT Parking Lot (just past
mile marker 48), immediately after large stone piers on both sides of Rt-23.
Meet at
8:30 Start at 9:00 GPS (41.3035, -74.6667)
Thursday September 15, 2022 Perkins Memorial Car Show Strenuous
Will hike
over to Major Welsh trail and up to the Perkins memorial. Then descend the AT
steps at Bear Mountain to see a late model car show with music. Trip starts at
2:00 with car show at 5:00.
Leader:
Rick Mohovich 201-675-6304 FIGGMAN@MINDSPRING.COM
Meet: 2:00 PM Fort Montgomery Overflow Parking on
Rt-9W north, 708 Rt-9W, Highland Falls NY 10928
Take the Palisades
Interstate Parkway: North
to Rt-9W traffic circle near Bear Mountain Bridge (about 18 miles north of NY
State Thruway). At the circle junction go north
on Rt-9W about 3/4 mi across Popolopen Bridge (0.3 mi past Fort Montgomery entrance) to “Additional parking” lot just off of the viaduct on the east side of
Rt-9W. GPS Meeting Place
(41.3283, -73.9877)
Sunday
September 18, 2022 Roxbury to Chester
Black River
Strenuous
Will meet at Chester Black River Park
and do a shuttle to Roxbury and hike West Morris Greenway to Chester Black
River Park. The hike is 7.5 miles long and a shuttle is required. A lot
of the route is rails trails. It passes next to the Black River.
Leader: Guy Percival 973-590-7437 JENGUY@OPTONLINE.NET
Meet:
9:00 AM Chester Black River Park,
137 North Rd, Chester, NJ 07930
Take Rt-206 North to intersection with Main
Street Chester (Rt-513). Turn east onto Main Street and continue 1 mi to next
light. Proceed straight through traffic light onto North Road. (Rt-513) Go ¾ mile
and make a left into Black River Recreation Park. Lots of soccer fields.
GPS (40.7974, -74.6683)
Saturday September 24, 2022
DeKorte Park
Moderate
This will be
a 6-mile hike in an urban oasis with beautiful views of NYC. Also, large ponds
with plenty of ducks and other wildlife in them. All flat walking with short
climbs over dikes.
Leader:
Craig Nunn 551-206-6823 DYSTOPICNJ@GMAIL.COM
Meet:
9:00 AM DeKorte Park, Disposal Rd.
Parking Lot; Lyndhurst, NJ 07071
Take
exit off Route 3 towards NYC onto Rutherford Ave. Go 1000 feet make a right on Ridge Road. Go 8 blocks and past Kingsland
Rail Road Station to a left on Valley Brook. Follow Valley Brook for a mile. It
becomes Disposal Road and leads into DeKorte Park. GPS
(40.78621, -74.1028)