Downstate New York Rock Walks : An Explorer's Guide to Amazing Boulders and Rock Formations / C. Russell Dunn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunn, Russell, author.

Series:

Excelsior editions.

Excelsior Editions Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology.

Hiking.

Rocks.

Downstate New York (N.Y.)--Guidebooks.

Downstate New York (N.Y.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (545 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2023]

Summary:

Downstate New York Rock Walks is both a hiking guidebook and a history book, calling attention to some of downstate New York's most spectacular and historic rocks: balanced rocks, perched rocks, rock shelters, talus caves, glacial potholes, split rocks, rock profiles, historic rocks, and massive, larger-than-life boulders. Many large glacial erratics have a history going back thousands of years to when they were moved to their present location by advancing glaciers. Many served as points of navigational reference at a time when the landscape was featureless and heavily forested, and still others were ceremonial sites for Native Americans. Rock shelters and talus caves have also been used for thousands of years by Native Americans and Europeans seeking refuge from the elements. It is important that these amazing natural wonders of stone be remembered and recorded before they are lost to collective memory or destroyed by the encroachment of civilization. Providing precise GPS location information along with length and degree of difficulty for each hike, Downstate New York Rock Walks will appeal to casual hikers, serious rock explorers, historians, geologists, and anyone wishing to explore some of nature's greatest wonders within the reach of the lower Hudson River valley.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Why Rocks?

Erratic Behavior

Downstate New York 10,000 Years Ago

How Big Is Big?

Balanced Rocks and Earthquakes

GPS Coordinates

Delorme New York State Atlas &amp

Gazetteer Coordinates

Directions

WOW Factor

Photographing Rocks

This Is an Explorer's Guidebook

Caution: Safety Tips

East Side of Hudson River

Dutchess County

1 Stone Church Cave (Dover Plains)

Description

History

Resources

2 Indian Rock (Staatsburg)

3 Waryas Park Rocks and Kaal Rock (Poughkeepsie)

Waryas Park

Kaal Rock Park

4 Lovers Leap (Historic) (Poughkeepsie)

5 Poughkeepsie Standing Stone (Wappinger Falls)

6 Bowdoin Park Rockledge Shelters (Wappinger Falls)

North Rockledge Shelter

South Rockledge Shelter

7 Nuclear Lake Rocks (West Pawling)

Putnam County

8 Split Rock (Nelsonville)

Split Rock

Large Boulder

9 Goose Rocks (Oscawana Lake)

10 Hawk Rock and Balanced Rock (Kenwood Lake)

11 Brewster High School Boulder (Brewster Hill)

12 Laurel Ledges (Patterson)

13 Little Stony Point Mine/Cave (Cold Spring)

Westchester County

14 Brinton Brook Sanctuary Rocks (Croton-on-

Description.

History

15 Devil's Stairs (Ossining)

To Get to the Sing Sing Greenway Trail

16 Devil's Rock and Devil's Footprints (Croton-on)

17 Potato Rock (Croton Point)

18 Frank's Rock (Ossining)

19 Teatown Lake Boulders (Ossining)

Visitor Center Parking

Blinn Road Parking

Vernay Lake

20 Natural Bridge (Salem Center)

21 Great Boulder and Old Academy Boulder (North Salem)

Old Academy Boulder

Great Boulder

22 Sarah Bishop's Cave (Grant Corner)

23 Split Rock (Peekskill)

24 Hunter Brook Rock Shelter (Croton Reservoir)

Second Site

25 Giant Boulder (Yorktown)

26 Katonah Woods Boulders and Rocking Stone (Katonah)

Katonah Woods Boulders

Rocking Stone

27 Cobbling Rock (Katonah)

28 Great Stone Face Rock Shelter (Bedford)

29 Ward Pound Ridge Reservation Rocks (Cross River)

Leatherman's Cave

Indian Rock-Shelter

Bear Rock Petroglyph

Dancing Rock

30 Henry Morgenthau Preserve Boulder (Pound Ridge)

Resources.

31 Choate Sanctuary Boulder (Mt. Kisco)

32 Kidd's Rock (Sleepy Hollow)

33 Rockefeller State Park Preserve Rocks (Sleepy Hollow)

Spook Rock

Raven's Rock

Glacial Erratic

Spook Rock and Raven Rock

34 Helicker's Cave and Big Boulders (Armonk)

35 Horace Sarles Rock and Shelter Caves (Armonk)

Rock-Shelters

Horace Sarles Rock

Rock Shelter

36 Irvington Woods Rocks (Irvington)

Kiosk Boulder

Jenkins Rock

Sunset Rock

Alternate Parking

37 Aquehung Boulder (Bronxville)

38 Farcus Hott Cave (Elmsford)

39 Sigghes Rock and Amackassin Rock (Yonkers)

40 Benziger Boulder (Bronxville)

41 Indian Rock Shelter (Larchmont)

42 Rocking Stone (Larchmont)

43 Manor Park Rocks (Larchmont)

44 Washington Rock (Mamaroneck)

45 Stephenson Boulder (New Rochelle)

The Bronx

46 Fort Number 8 Boulder (University Heights)

47 Indian Rock (Claremont)

48 Cat Rock Cave (New Rochelle)

49 Split Rock and Lincoln Rock (Bronx)

50 Bronx River Gorge Potholes (Bronx)

51 Rocking Stone (Bronx)

52 Black Rock (Bronx)

53 Inwood Hill Park Rock Formations (Inwood)

54 Fort Tryon Rocks (Fort Tryon)

55 Richmond (Echo), Park Rocks (Mount Hope)

56 Indian Cave (Spuyten Duyvil)

57 Pudding Rock (Bronx)

58 Naval Camp Boulder (Pelham Manor)

59 Jack's Rock and Mishow Rock (Pelham Man)

Jack's Rock

Mishow Rock

60 Sphinx Rock (Twin Island)

61 Tillie's Rock (Hunter Island)

62 Grey Mare Rock (Hunter Island)

63 Glover's Rock (Pelham Manor)

64 Split Rock and Eagle Rock (Pelham Manor)

Eagle Rock

65 Roosevelt Rock (Pelham Manor)

66 Indian Prayer Rock (Pelham Manor)

Nassau County

67 Execution Rock (Larchmont)

ADDITIONAL OFFSHORE ROCKS

68 Sands Point Preserve Boulders (Manorhaven)

History.

Directions

69 Council Rock (Oyster Bay)

70 Shelter Rock (Manhasset)

71 Big Rock and Little Rock (Plandome Heights)

72 Caumsett State Historic Park Boulders (Lloyd Neck)

73 Target Rock (Huntington)

Manhattan

74 Central Park Rocks (Central Park)

Umpire Rock

Blockhouse Rock

Sheep Meadow Boulder

Arch Rock

Ramble Cave

Cat Rock

Blockhouse Boulder

Worthless Rock

Tooth Rock

Sheep Meadow Boulders

75 Flood Rock (East River)

76 Stonefield (Chelsea)

77 Point of Rocks (Central Harlem)

Queens

78 Giant Rock (East Elmhurst)

79 White Stone (Whitestone)

Water Access

Land Access

80 Long Island City Glacial Erratic (Hunters Point)

Staten Island (Richmond County)

81 Moses Mountain (Richmond Town)

82 Sugar Loaf Rock (Richmond Town)

83 Stonehenges Shores (Tottenville)

84 Fort Hill Park Boulder (Richmond Town)

Long Island (Suffolk County)

85 Halesite Boulder (Halesite)

Directions.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Dunn, C. Russell Downstate New York Rock Walks

ISBN:

9781438494692

OCLC:

1445356840