These are kind of brief descriptions of two beautiful state parks where we stayed over a period of 5 days, in NY and Massachusetts. Have a short window of time to access the wifi of our good friends, Randy and Jane, in Ontario (thank you!) so, here goes:
Schodack Island State Park - Upstate NY
This is a beautiful park between a creek and the mighty Hudson River,
hence the island designation. We had a
gorgeous campsite, with electricity, amid towering trees that may have been
cottonwoods (?), due to the constantly-falling seeds that looked like cotton. Who knows, but the trees and forest there
were lush and green. Trails that had
been cut way back, maybe for hikers to avoid bugs(?) surrounded the park and
extended several miles in either direction along the Hudson. There were boat ramps for motor boats on the
big river and for kayaks on the creek.
Alas, we didn’t bring our yaks.
We entertained the Murph by throwing his football into the Hudson at the
boat ramp.
Mohawk Trail State Forest - the Berkshires
MTSF is in the Berkshires, in Northwestern Massachusetts. Beautiful park and our site was right on a
creek – not sure of the name. We
boon-docked there for 3 nights, but it was OK, as we brought the
generator. It was lovely to sleep to the
creek sound, but the shower facility, one campground over, was dismal. How does one take a shower when one hand must
be pushing on the ON button to keep the water on????
Not to worry, as Moby indeed has a shower, which was needed after
several humid, misty hikes. We hiked the
Mahican-Mohawk Trail a couple of times, which was used by the Indians as a
trading route eons ago.
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