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Join Outdoors Club! Visit interesting places and meet new people around the NYC area. Some activities are easy, and others difficult. All are reached by public transit.
ARE YOU A MEMBER? Joining this Meetup group does not make you an Outdoors Club member. Non-members pay one-day dues of $5 to attend an Outdoors Club event. By becoming an annual dues paying member, you won't have to pay $5 per event, be notified of Member-Only events not posted on Meetup, and help pay for Outdoors Club nonprofit expenses. https://outdoorsclubny.org/membership/
RSVP COURTESY: We appreciate you being a considerate Outdoors Club community member. There often are more people wanting to attend than spots available. Sign up only if you intend to show up. If you have to cancel, please change your RSVP as early as possible to allow someone on the waitlist an opportunity attend.
QUESTIONS? If you have any questions about an event, please contact the leader directly (email/phone included in event description). For general questions about Outdoors Club, please email us at outdoorsclubny@yahoo.com.
Your participation in any of our activities is your acknowledgment that you are solely responsible for your own assessment of your abilities and your physical fitness to participate in that activity. Participants in any Outdoors Club activity are encouraged to discuss with the hike leader any limitation they may have that could affect their ability to fully participate in an event. The hike leader may refuse to take anyone who lacks proper equipment or adequate ability. Walkers must be physically fit and by joining any event you agree to waive all rights and claims for damages against Outdoors Club, its hike leaders, officers, directors, employees or volunteers.
Outdoors Club does not tolerate inappropriate behavior during its events. If you are subject to or witness any inappropriate behavior during an Outdoors Club event, please report the behavior to us at outdoorsclubny@yahoo.com. We will investigate and take necessary action.
We encourage and appreciate the posting of photos taken during Outdoors Club events and we reserve the right to use the photos in any manner and for any reason, except for commercial purposes, without remuneration or credit.
Upcoming events (3)
See all- PATERSON GREAT FALLS CLEANUPPaterson Great Falls National Historical Park, Paterson, NJ
TIME: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM - OPTIONAL LUNCH TO FOLLOW
JOINT WITH SIERRA CLUB
Meet at 10:00 AM at the Hamilton Statue in the main parking lot of the Paterson Great Falls.
We supply gloves, grabbers, and bags. Optional lunch to follow (at our fabulous Peruvian restaurant, a five-minute walk from the parking lot).
Transportation from New York City is available at the George Washington Bridge Bus Station and the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Jitneys are available at the George Washington Bridge Bus Station, leaving every few minutes for Paterson. The Falls are an easy ten-minute walk from the bus stop at Broadway and Market Street. New Jersey Transit buses are also available. The Falls are a short walk from the New Jersey Transit bus stop. Please check bus schedules.
Organizers: Ron Pate/Margo Moss (acephoto@verizon.net) Please let us know by Friday, Sept. 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM if you are going.
Severe inclement weather cancels.
- SMITHTOWN (LONG ISLAND) CIRCULARLong Island Greenbelt Trail Conference Inc, Smithtown, NY
Hike limited to 25 participants. About 10 miles. From the Smithtown train station, use local streets to join the Long Island Greenbelt Trail. Enter the woods and traverse Stump Pond’s perimeter on Blue Trail, passing a park, and returning to Greenbelt at Caleb Smith State Park Preserve. Continue through Preserve until Greenbelt’s exit at a local street leading to The Bull. Return to Smithtown station on Rte 25. Trails have small hills, tree roots, and rocks. No sneakers.
Meet NY Penn Station ticket office (not Moynihan Hall) at 8:15 am for the 8:36 am Port Jefferson Line train, change at Huntington. RT fare $30:50. (Seniors $20:50.) (Check train times!)
Leader: Clive Morrick, 646-519-0905, clive.morrick@gmail.com. Nonmembers $5.00.
- Hell's Kitchen — A West Side Story787 Coffee, New York, NY
Hell's Kitchen — A West Side Story
Sunday, Sept 28, 2025
12:30 pm – 3:30 pm
ManhattanHow to Find Us: Meet in front of 787 Coffee, 245 West 46th St (just east of Eighth Ave). Pretty much every subway line in NYC stops in Times Square, which is four blocks from the meeting spot. We'll take a 20-minute lunch break (bring your own) in a park/playground on Tenth Ave around 2:00 pm.
The walk ends at W 51st St and Eighth Ave, near lots of subway lines. Toilets are available at the Columbus branch of the NYPL, 742 Tenth Ave (between W 50 and 51 streets). Sadly, there are no public toilets in the Times Square area, but the Paramount Hotel on W 46th St, near the starting point, may allow use of its lobby facility.NOTE: The portion of Hell's Kitchen that we'll explore (W 46-51 streets, Eighth-Tenth avenues) survives as a microcosm of what was once a much larger area. Our walk will focus on the tenements, row houses, institutions, and playgrounds that reflect Hell's Kitchen's rich history as home to generations of immigrants. Evidence of the gentrification that has transformed parts of the neighborhood will also be viewed.
One of the highlights will be a stop at a playground that inspired Paul Simon's musical, The Capeman. I recommend listening to at least the opening track of its score: https://youtu.be/Us0SbkJaf38?si=5TZXikj0MDNMjGPaLimited to 25 walkers. $5 for non-members of the Outdoors Club.
Kevin J. Kelley
802-989-1669
kevinjaykelley@gmail.com
