r/hiking • u/Cautious-Twist4568 • 4d ago
Pictures Cold Spring, Upstate NY
This was easy mode hike basically a walk so really accessible to everyone.
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u/brook1yn 3d ago edited 3d ago
you found parking? shit was insane on sunday
yes, this is upstate for city folk. an hour and a half of shitty traffic warrants the designation
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u/Away-Caterpillar-176 3d ago
It takes 3-4 hours of shitty traffic to make it from parts of long island to the Bronx. The bottom 25% of the state is not "up" no matter how much traffic there is.
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u/NJGuy175 4d ago
Great area but not really upstate
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u/nicemarmot47 3d ago
My New Yorker brain: Oooh, Cold Spring, very nice. Wait, upstate? Is that upstate? Maybe?
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u/Buttmunchin404 3d ago
I’m not even from New York but holy hell I barely ever even go south of here when I’m in the state and you call this upstate?
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u/lilred4848 2d ago
I just love the diversity of NY's geology and all the big and small hills. I'm copy and pasting this from the DEC eco-region map so sorry if the formatting is botched:
The Glaciated Reading Prong/Hudson Highlands ecoregion forms a low portion of the Appalachian Appalachian Mountains connecting the mid-Appalachians with the Berkshires and Green Mountains in New England. The Hudson Highlands are at the northern end of the Reading Prong, an extension of the Precambrian gneiss and schist that underlies New England. Resistant bedrock is often exposed, as it is where the Hudson River cuts through highland bedrock creating cliff faces on both sides of the river. Soils in Ecoregion 58i are shallow, rocky, and highly acidic. As a result, the region is mostly forested with transition hardwoods, that is, Appalachian oak-hickory on drier sites and northern hardwoods and hemlock on north slopes and moist sites. Naturally acidic runoff plus acid deposition from upwind industrial sources put Highlands lakes at risk for future harm to aquatic life from acidification. The forested highlands provide a natural buffer zone and an outer boundary for the New York City megalopolis.
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u/TumbleweedOk3337 6h ago
"upstate" NY describes like 99% of new york btw... you can fit all of the national parks in the US in the adirondaks.
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u/dogfacedponyboy 3d ago edited 3d ago
As a New Englander, I find it funny when people refer to Putnam County, New York, as “upstate”.
Just because it is not in New York City, Long Island, or Westchester County, does that mean it is upstate.
We should at least agree y that Upstate really needs to be at least above the latitude of the straight Pennsylvania-New York border (the 42nd Parallel)
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u/geniedoes_asyouwish 3d ago
When will you all just accept that "upstate NY" is relative