Some Other Spots in Westchester

Josh Feldman suggests some trails in Pound Ridge.

A snowy trail at Hart’s Brook Park in Greenburgh.

Steve Scholle suggested a new but short trail in Greenburgh, Hart’s Brook Park, which is on the south side of Ridge Road, which if you’re coming from Central Avenue, you reach before you get to Ridge Road Park, which is on the right. It has a number of short trails. I stopped by, but couldn’t run, and it struck me as a nice oasis. There’s a map available at the parking lot. Someone else suggested a 3-mile hilly trail at the Ridge Road Park off Ridge Road in Hartsdale, which is west of Central Avenue.

I have a particular affinity for Croton Point, where they held the Westchester County X-C championships when I was in high school. I’ve not run there since my senior year in high school, but here’s another nice map from the Audubon Society.

TrailRunner.com has links to trails submitted by folks all over the country – go to “State Trails” – including a number in Westchester, among them:

North Salem and
Somers

Tom Maile of the Taconic Road Runners writes,

Another venue is Blue Mountain Reservation (Audubon Map) just southeast of Peekskill. Very extensive group of trails, some very, very challenging. You can get a map at the Westchester Parks web site. During the first weekend of December we hold a cross-country relay there followed by a couples relay the next day. There is usually a small group of runners meeting at the Lodge at 7:30 every Sunday morning for a trail run. It’s also very popular with mountain/trail bikers so you have to be on your guard.

Also, we have a large group of runners that meet every Saturday morning at 7:30 at Croton Gorge Park Map, under the dam. This run is on some trails, some paved road and some dirt road. Distance can be anywhere from 8 to 20 miles and there are three water stops with water and gatoraid.

The Briarcliff-Peekskill Trailway passes both of these parks. Map. (PDF file; will open is new window.)

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Some Paved Trails

In addition to the trails I identify, there are a number of paved “trails.” I run on the path by The Bronx River Pathway north from Bronxville/Yonkers quite often. The picture is from the bridge just north of Bronxville Village; the path circles the “lake.” The path is paved, mostly flat and takes you from Pondfield Road West to Hearney Road near the Eastchester/Scarsdale border. (This is “Section 1” on the map, where it’s listed as 3.6 miles, albeit from Palmer Road.) There is a complicated stretch through Scarsdale and up to Hartsdale and then a straight-forward stretch from just to the east (and across the parkway) of the Hartsdale train station. This latter part takes you up to White Plains and is a mix of pavement and cinder. (This is not on the map.)

The South County Trailway [this is a PDF file that will open in a separate window, from the “Bronx River Pathway” link] is the old Putnam Train right-of-way that is just to the east of the Saw Mill River Parkway, picked up in the south off the Farragut Avenue exit of that parkway.

In Eastview, the trailway becomes The North County Trailway [another PDF file that will open in a separate window], which takes you to Putnam County. Here's a description from the Metro Area Recumbent Society, recumbents being those long low bikes.

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Last edited on ... February 5, 2006