About us
Strap on your best outdoor walking boots and head for the great outdoors with the Gay Mens' Hiking Group. This woodsy gang of dudes takes day trips to nearby mountains, forests and nature trails. Recent trips have included a winter hike in the Hudson Highlands and a vigorous 10 mile hike in Harriman State Park. We also do an overnight camping trip every year on Fire Island, which is easy and a lot of fun.
We try to do at least one hike per month. Our trips are accessible by trains out of NYC. The guys coming from the city meet in Grand Central or Penn Station and travel upstate together. For the drivers I provide details on parking near the trail head and we meet them there.
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Sloatsburg Hike to Harriman
Pennsylvania Station, 4 Pennsylvania Plaza, New York, NY, USHarriman is a more wild state park, so the trails and trains will be less crowded than other hikes. Starting in Sloatsburg and hiking Harriman State Park. It will be approximately 9 miles over some hills and rocky outcrops. YOU NEED TO BE AEROBICALLY FIT for this hike, a hiker/walker or jogger. The trails in Harriman are rocky and steep and it's a long day of hiking
If we travel at our usual pace we'll be back with plenty of time to catch the 4:25pm train (see return train times below).
GEAR: Hiking boots or trail runners. Wear layers that you can add and remove as the weather changes. Bring a waterproof shell in case it rains.
NYC GUYS TAKING THE TRAIN: Arrive at Penn Station around 8:35am. Meet inside near the NJTransit ticket booths, at the bottom of the escalators, at the 7th Ave and 32nd Street entrance to Penn Station. We're catching the 8:54am train #7229. There is a 9:11am #7829 to Secaucus that works too. We're catching the earlier one to give us more time to transfer. Doesn't matter which time you book for your ticket. Get out at SECAUCUS JUNCTION then transfer, on the lower level, to the 9:30 #0071 train toward Port Jervis. We'll get off in SLOATSBURG at 10:24am.
Return train from Sloatsburg is 4:25pm. We want to catch this one because the next is 6:50pm. If these times don't work for you, you can try to get an Uber to nearby town of Suffern which has more frequent trains.
IF YOU LIVE IN HOBOKEN or JERSEY: At Hoboken Train Station you can catch the 9:20am train #0071 toward PORT JERVIS get off in SLOATSBURG. Those of us coming from Penn Station will board this train in Secaucus.
DRIVERS: This hike starts and ends in Sloatsburg. We'll meet you at train station at 10:24am. There's parking lot nearby at 32 Mill St, Sloatsburg, New York. Here's the Google pin for the lot https://goo.gl/maps/ngHcRz5ezaZoQpRV8
FOOD: Bring a packed lunch and plenty of water. I bring 2 liters of water. There's a few places in Sloatsburg if you want to eat after.
ALLTRAILS: IMPORTANT Alltrails isn't 100% accurate in this area. I'll let you know the trail dots colors for navigation. I added the map to the photos section on Meetup. AllTrails is a very useful hiking app, I suggest you download it, it will be a big help if you ever get separated from the group.
OUR ROUTE: Download this hike from AllTrails.
https://www.alltrails.com/explore/custom-routes/sloatsburg-to-ramapo-torne-d683225Here's my AllTrails profile. If we follow each other it's easier to share maps. https://www.alltrails.com/members/william-wilson-16
Can't wait to see you on the trails!
Bill Wilson
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