Snowshoe Historic Carriage Roads
Sunday, February 12th 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Olana State Historic Site – Parking lot by the Wagon House Education Center – 5720 State Route 9G, Hudson, NY
All Ages
Free
Snowshoe along the carriage drives to see the transition from farm to forest, skirt along the edge of North Meadow and see beautiful views of the Catskills from Ridge Road. An educator from the Olana Partnership will discuss the history of the carriage roads and land use at Olana.
CLC has a limited number of snowshoes to lend to participants. If you are new to the sport or borrowing snowshoes from CLC, please arrive at 1:30 pm. Expect a moderately strenuous, 2 mile hike. In the event of no snow, we will hike the trails on foot.
History of Olana Carriage Roads
As a landscape painter Frederic Church designed his own living landscape to reflect the aesthetic ideals of his day. He carefully planned the route of the carriage roads to elicit a feeling of nature untamed. Many of the carriage roads were built on the edge of precipices and designed to reveal certain views at just the right moment. Using switchbacks that cut through the wilderness around Olana, he created a sense of the sublime, or awe-filled discovery, of the beautiful natural surroundings. By going on a snow shoe trek you will be experiencing Olana the way Church intended, as a moving landscape painting, full of wonder and drama.
To register, contact Jenny Brinker at 518.392.5252, ext. 210 or jenny@clctrust.org by noon on Friday, February 10.