Tahawus Trails LLC

12/22/2023

10/23/2023

Many thanks to Barkeater Trails Alliance, who completed a new 3,700-foot trail at the Adirondack Land Trust’s Three Sisters Preserve in Wilmington.

The downhill-only biking trail is named Flobus—a play on Pinus strobus, the Latin name for a white pine tree, and “flow” to describe the type of experience it offers. In addition to becoming a fast favorite, the new trail alleviates pressure on the preserve’s two-way trails shared by walkers, runners, and bikers.

10/22/2023

Anyone ever heard of wattling? When we designed the large observation deck for Stratton Falls, we knew we wanted it to look like a fairytale, but we had fun taking it even one step further by implementing a technique that dates back 6000 years for the decorative portion of the base of the deck. We didn’t like how you could see the massive piers and the engineering that holds the deck up, so we masked the piers with branches by using what is called wattle construction. Wattling is done by weaving flexible branches around upright stakes to form a woven lattice. In our case, our crew had to soak the branches first to get them to be flexible enough to weave.

And according to Wikipedia: “Evidence of wattle construction was found at Woodcutts Settlement from the British Iron Age, and the Roman Vitruvius wrote about wattles in his book on architecture, De architectura, but the technique goes back to Neolithic times.”

You can still see thousand-year-old wattle fences around pastures in the British and Irish and Welsh countryside. They have such a fairytale-like quality to them in that setting so, well, we, well, wanted to bring it to Stratton Falls…

Photo taken today, 10/19/23

09/27/2023

Construction of pedestrian bridge will conclude 10-year effort to improve public access to OSI protected lands in northern section of park.

07/19/2023

Tahawus Trails is hiring. We are looking for an Office Administrator. This is a flexible position. It could be a part time or full time , 100% devoted to the administrative side of Tahawus or could be part administrative and part-field based.

https://www.tahawustrails.com/jobs

07/04/2023

The reconstructed Breakneck Ridge Trail to the “Upper Overlook” and Steward Station is complete.

Breakneck Trailhead to Reopen on July 1, 2023 Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail, Inc., the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP), and the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference (NYNJTC) announced on June 23, 2023 that work at the Upper Overlook area of the Breakneck T...

06/30/2023

02/18/2023

DEC contracts with organizations throughout the Adirondacks, Catskills, and other public lands to enlist trail stewards that help protect natural resources by improving and maintaining trails and educating visitors on actions they can take to reduce their impacts while recreating. In 2022, our service contract stewardship partners, Adirondack Mountain Club, New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, Student Conservation Association and Tahawus Trails LLC worked to maintain close to 770,000 feet of trails and communicated with 42,500 visitors!

To learn more about the stewards’ contributions, check out the 2022 Stewardship Contract Annual Reports: https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/122629.html.

06/27/2022

At OSI, we protect land for people, for habitat, forever.

04/24/2022

The hand sledge rhythm is slow and deliberate, the strokes practiced and controlled. Slowly the big rocks become small. The river roars in the background.

02/24/2022