Palisades & Pancakes 🥞

Who wants to join us in taking in endless spectacular views, while enjoying a good hike, ending it with some FAN FREAKIN TASTIC pancakes?! 🥞 🥰

Meeting Point:
We will meet on the 3rd Floor of the GW Bridge Port Authority Bus Station waiting area at 9:45AM—we take off at 10:00AM.

Details:
We will cross over the GW Bridge. Head into the Palisades Interstate Park and crossing into Burdetts Landing, that will take us onto the Shore Trail. We will take this up to the Englewood Boat Basin area and we will head back towards the Ross Dock Picnic area, climb up the Carpenter’s trail, which boasts elevation gain: hikers’ GPS recordings show roughly 380–390 feet of cumulative climbing, which aligns closely with the official 320-foot cliff ascent/descent. This will take us onto the Long Path looping U.S. back over to the NJ side of the GW Bridge.

POINT TO POINT THIS WALK IS ABOUT 15 MILES.

🗳️ We’ll take a poll and see who wishes to join us for pancakes and who doesn’t and go from there.

Pancake 🥞 Details 🥰
From the NJ of the GW Bridge, we’ll walk down 1.7 miles over to the Brownstone Pancake Factory

ℹ️ 📝 There’s more to enjoy other than pancakes 🥞 so take a look at the menu and see what speaks to you!

ℹ️ 📝 For those who wish to stay on the NJ side, there’s bus 🚌 158 that has bus stops all along the route on River Road you could take as it would take you back over to the GW Bridge bus 🚌 station.

ℹ️ 📝 For those who wish to walk back over the GW Bridge with me, we’ll walk back over and catch the A train or the 1 train from W181.

Bathroom 🚽 and water fillable Stops:

• GW Bridge Port Authority 3rd Floor Waiting Area
• Englewood Boat Basin
• Ross Dock Picnic Area
• Spigot 🚰 at entrance of Ross 🧺
• water fountain at Englewood Cliffs 🧺
• Brownstone Pancake 🥞 Factory

Features:

• Spectacular views across the GW Bridge
• Various bird 🐦 peeping
• Deer 🦌 beavers 🦫 and more
• Incredible views of the NY side, including seeing our beloved Little Red Light House

⚠️ HEADS UP AND WARNING ⚠️

• Please wear either hiking 🥾 boots or have footwear that offers good traction on them.
• We will be going up and down stone stairs that are both narrow and steep, so if this is something that concerns you, then this may not be the walk for you.
• Hiking poles ideal for those who have.
• LOCK 🔐 YOUR POLES!!!!
• Bring insect repellent WITH DEET—there will be ticks out there!
• water 💦 drinking is IMPORTANT!! Please remember to regularly hydrate yourself.
• ONCE YOU’RE ON THE TRAIL—THERE’S NO TURNING BACK!

Trains 🚊 on the NY side: A or 1 trains at W181.

Bus 🚌 on the NJ side: 158 with different bus stops on River Road

📝 Please check your Transit app for details on your trains/buses to get to the meeting place, as it’s cowboy country when it comes to commuting on the weekends!! 🥴 There’s always something going on, reroutes, etc…