Best Easy Day Hikes Rochester, New York

by Randi Minetor

Overview

Best Easy Day Hikes Rochester includes concise descriptions of the best short hikes in the area, with detailed maps of the routes. The 20 hikes in this guide are generally short, easy to follow, and guaranteed to please.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493056392
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/01/2021
Series:	Best Easy Day Hikes Series
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	124
Sales rank:	293,956
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Randi Minetor is a travel author, a lifelong Rochester resident, an avid birder and an active participant in the efforts to preserve open space in Monroe County and beyond. A member of the board of directors and steering committee for the Genesee Land Trust, Randi's firsthand understanding of the value of critical habitat in the Greater Rochester area stems from nearly twenty years of combing the region's grasslands, lakeshores, woods and wetlands to observe bird species and behaviors. She was a volunteer in the New York State Breeding Bird Atlas 2000-2005, and in the Nature Conservancy's Migratory Bird Survey—and her writings on her Atlas work were quoted in a display in the New York State Museum. She has also written about local birding for Bird Watcher's Digest.

In addition, Randi has written seventeen other books for The Globe Pequot Press, including the nine-book Passport To Your National Parks Companion Guides series, National Parks Pocket Guides to Great Smoky Mountains, Acadia, Zion and Bryce Canyon, and Everglades National Parks, and to Cape Cod, Assateague Island and Gulf Islands National Seashore. Her two Timeline Tours books on Gettysburg National Military Park and Washington, DC, will be published in summer 2009, and her Best Easy Day Hikes guides to Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany, NY, will be out in fall 2009 and spring 2010. She writes the National Parks column on Examiner.com, and she contributes to several websites on America's national parks. Randi lives in the city of Rochester with her husband, photographer and lighting designer Nic Minetor, who shoots the photographs for many of her books.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii

How to Use This Guide ix

Introduction 1

Trail Finder 9

Map Legend 11

The Hikes

1 Durand Eastman Park: Lakeshore Trail 12

2 Lucien Morin Park 17

3 Gosnell Big Woods and Big Field Trail 22

4 Whiting Road Nature Preserve 26

5 High Acres Nature Area 31

6 Beechwood State Park 36

7 Cornwall Preserve 41

8 Genesee Riverway Trail: Turning Point Park to Port of Rochester 45

9 Washington Grove/Cobbs Hill Park 49

10 Genesee Valley Greenway Trail: Morgan Road to Ballantyne Road 54

11 Sandra Frankel Nature Park/Brickyard Trail 59

12 Oatka Creek Park 63

13 Mendon Ponds Park: Birdsong and Quaker Pond Trails 67

14 Ganondagan State Historic Site: The Earth Is Our Mother Trail 72

15 Powder Mills Park: Trillium and Ridge Trails 77

16 Thousand Acre Swamp 81

17 Erie Canal Heritage Trail: Pittsford to Fairport 85

18 Corbett's Glen Nature Park 91

19 Crescent Trail: Horizon Hill Conservation Area 96

20 Four Mile Creek Preserve 101

21 Letchworth State Park: Lower, Middle, and Upper Falls 106

Clubs and Trail Groups 111

About the Author 113