About us
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
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La Dolce Vita in Nolita 2026
Broadway-Lafayette St, Lafayette Street, New York, NY, USSunday June 7, 11:30 am – 1:30 (or 2) pm
ManhattanHow to Find Us: Meet outside REI Camping Store, 303 Lafayette St. The B, D, F and M trains stop diagonally across E Houston St at the Broadway-Lafayette station. The Bleecker St station for the 6 train is a block away. Bring your lunch for a pleasant picnic in the Elizabeth St Garden. Toilets are available inside REI at the start of the walk and in St Pat's at the end.
Limited to 25 walkers. $5 for non-members of the NY Outdoors Club. Plus, $20 for optional admission to the St Patrick’s Basilica catacombs tour at the conclusion of the walk.
NOTE: Nolita (North of Little Italy) is a compact but vibrant and hip neighborhood with some outstanding sights. We’ll visit the Basilica of St Patrick’s Old Cathedral which opened in 1815 — 64 years prior to the more famous St Patrick’s on Fifth Ave. The church complex includes catacombs that contain the remains of several local family members. Also on the roughly three-mile walk is the Elizabeth St Garden, focus of a long-running fight over green space vs senior housing. We’ll also view several decorated tenements, a few strikingly post-modernist condo buildings and at least one surviving Italian American butcher shop.
Kevin J Kelley
802-989-1669
kevinjaykelley@gmail.com23 attendees
North Mt. Loretto State Forest
Whitehall Terminal, 4 Whitehall street,, New York, NY, USMount Loretto Unique Area and North Mt. Loretto State Forest, Sunday, June 21, 2026
This hike is a 5-6 mile loop through the north and south sides of Mt. Loretto, a complex on Staten Island comprised of the Mount Loretto Unique Area, a gentle, hilly public area adjacent to the Raritan Bay, and the North Mount Loretto State Forest, a woodland between Catholic Youth Organization property and the Staten Island Railroad. Other than a hill adjacent to the bay, the terrain is mostly flat. Trails in the Unique Area are for the most part wide and well maintained, some being paved roads (not for vehicular traffic). Trails in the State Forest are more rough, although still flat; those in Long Pond Park are rougher yet. The leader will meet hikers in the waiting room of the Whitehall Ferry Terminal for the 9:00 am Staten Island Ferry to connect with the 9:36 SIR train to Pleasant Plains Station. From there the group will walk to the State Forest parking lot at Amboy and Cunningham Road where the hike will begin. FYI, other than the possible exception of a restroom in a Wendy’s close to the station or a CYO building at Mt. Loretto, only a port-a-potty is available at the Unique Area, and nothing else for the duration of the hike.
Lunch will be at a shelter at the top of the Unique Area bluff (hopefully unoccupied). Hikers will exit through the State Forest and a portion of adjacent Long Pond Park to return to the ferry from Richmond Valley Station, however, the S78 bus with a transfer to the S79 is an option to Bay Ridge 86th St. Station, Brooklyn. Hikers are advised to check the Ferry and MTA schedules before the hike for service changes. Also, the SIR train will be an extension of a single trip if hikers use the same card or device to pay their fare; the same applies on the return. Bring lunch and sufficient water; Mosquito/tick spray is also advised. In the event of rain, the hike will be postponed until Saturday, June 27, same times. Hikers not from The Outdoors Club are asked for a $5.00 donation to help cover expenses.
Leader’s contact: 646-675-5787 & donrecklies@earthlink.net20 attendees
Past events
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