New Year’s Day Snowshoe/Hike

Monday, January 1st  
1:00 – 2:30 pm
You’re invited to join the 6th annual
New Year’s Snowshoe (or hike) at Walnut Mountain!
We have two ability levels for you to choose from:

– a BEGINNER hike along wide graded carriage roads or

– an INTERMEDIATE hike that includes single-track mountain bike trails to the summit.

REGISTER:  Registration required!  Call Morgan […]

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Wings exhibition Sunday Dec. 10th

You’re invited to
“Wings”
an exhibition of oil paintings by Helena Clare Pittman
Opening Reception – Sunday, December 10th
1:00 to 2:30pm.
The oil paintings on wood and board sweetly convey that the artist loves birds. “It has been a lifelong love, from the robins and sparrows I watched in Brooklyn, as a child, and the jays, […]

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Exploring the Shawangunks – a visual odyssey

You’re invited on a visual odyssey
with Nora Scarlett
Sunday, December 3
1:00pm

Nora’s stunning images will inspire and delight nature lovers, photographers, hikers and anyone who appreciates our remarkable landscape.
From Minnewaska to Sam’s Point, and back up to Mohonk, with many stops in between, join Nora on her visual odyssey through the Shawangunk Mountains in search […]

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Winter Preparedness Workshop

Saturday,  Dec. 2
Curious about winter hiking, winter camping or the 3500 Club?

Join us to gain new skills and prep for winter adventures.

Tom and Laurie Rankin, long-time 3500 Club* members, will share their winter mountaineering skills, learned over many years, in a relaxed, indoor presentation.

They have climbed all of the Catskill 3,500′ peaks at least […]

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The “Fall” of Summer

Join us for the opening of
The “Fall” of Summer
Tuesday, Oct. 24th      4:30 – 6 pm

Liberty High School Photo 2 students are getting outside and studying the ripping of the seam of Summer as Autumn takes hold. These 7 students are working at memorializing the breaking point from one season to another and […]

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Fall Hike at Walnut Mt.

Guided Fall Hike

Walnut Mountain Park. Liberty, NY

5:00 pm Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017

(Rain Date: October 26th)

Check out the infamous Witches Rock and learn a little history of Walnut Mountain.

Enjoy the Fall Foliage and Amazing Views!

Sponsored by:  Liberty Parks & Recreation,

Morgan Outdoors & Renegades Mountain Bike Club

 

MEET:  at baseball field parking area; at end of Walnut […]

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Tortoise and Hare Hike Oct. 8th

Sunday, Oct. 8th
12:00 – 2:00pm
Celebrate the Lark in the Park with us!
The Tortoise and the Hare Hike at Frick Pond
offers two choices, so both beginner and intermediate hikers can join in.

“Tortoises” will enjoy a 2.2-mile loop around scenic Frick Pond, and the “Hares” will enjoy a brisk 4.1 mile scamper.
Both groups will head out […]

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TOPO TALK – The Language of Topographic Maps

Saturday, Sept. 30
5:00 pm
  Explore the world of topographic maps.
  They tell us a lot about the land around us.
A ‘topo’ map shows the shape of the Earth’s surface with contour lines.  These lines make it possible to measure the height of mountains and steepness of slopes – great information for anyone planning a […]

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Block Party Sept. 9th

Classic cars are rolling into Livingston Manor

Saturday, September 9th  around 3:00pm

It’s the
Be Bop A Lula Block Party!
Peter Florance & the New Kings
will be rocking Main Street – 4 to 7pm on the steps of CAS

Vintage clothes at several locations in town

Sidewalk sales and a

Catskill Brewery tent!

We’ll have an easel with vintage photos (like the […]

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Fire Tower History Explored

Friday, September 15 at 7:00pm,
the public is invited to
“Fire Towers from a Historical Perspective”
an interactive presentation with Laurie Rankin.
We’ll explore why fire towers were needed, going back to the early 1900’s on a national and state level.

Then Laurie will focus on the local area, particularly Red Hill Fire Tower, 8 miles northeast of Grahamsville, […]

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