Due to a private event, the entire Lyndhurst estate will be closed to ALL visitors from March 22nd through April 21st.
Vehicles, walkers, and cyclists will be turned away at the main entrance by security and our Gate Staff. Those who normally walk the Old Croton Aqueduct State Park Trail will be detoured to South Broadway with the help from signs and OCA staff. Trail users of the North end of the Westchester County Riverwalk (behind Montefiore) will find the gate closed and locked. Please follow staff instructions and property signage for an alternate walking route.
From March 2020 on, the Keeper’s House was closed. No happy faces enjoying our exhibits.
But the trail is different.
There are more walkers than ever before. We were stunned to do a count of map orders in 2020 compared to 2019. Orders were up an astonishing 93%!! The trail tells the tale. It is looking very well used. And well cared for, too.
Tom Tarnowsky's Zoom presentation on the History of the Aqueduct in Westchester County, presented to the Irvington Historical Society. is now viewable here:
Mario Medici is a new 26-Miler from Bergen County, NJ, a NJ hike leader, and frequent participant in our Walks & Tours. He kindly allowed us to reproduce his thoughts and lovely photographs for this blog entry.
The following are some random thoughts having just completed walking the 26-mile portion of the OCA.
Adam Bartlett and an intrepid group of 9 runners decided to start off their New Year's Eve with a run of the entire 41 miles of the Old Croton Aqueduct route.
He writes:
"It was truly an epic day, made very difficult by the slippery mud conditions of a vast majority of the trail. Much of it was walked and not run by necessity !
As promised, I recruited individual families to continue the work of removing Garlic mustard from the trail. Two parents and their two little girls enjoyed clambering along the hillsides of the trail pulling Garlic mustard and bagging it for disposal. This family had participated in the 2019 I Love My Park Day and were pleased to have the opportunity to continue the work the following May.
