Trailhead
Little Stony Point
Main entry point · Town of Philipstown, Putnam County
- Status
- Planned — not built yet
- Today
- Open — Open now until 8:01 pm (sunset).
Event
Eco-Steward work day
Volunteer habitat work with HHFT staff along the corridor: invasive removal, planting and site care. No experience needed; tools and gloves provided.
- When
- , 9:00 AM–12:00 PM Eastern
- Where
- Little Stony Point — Meet at the Little Stony Point parking area on Route 9D. Look for the HHFT banner. Parking there is limited and fills early on summer weekends; the walk from Cold Spring station is about a mile along the road shoulder, so arriving by train means allowing 25 minutes on foot.
- Who it is for
- Ages 16 and over. Under 18 with a guardian.
- Cost
- Free · booking required · 25 places
Real event, taken from hhft.org's volunteer page as it stood on 7 August 2026. The meeting point, start time and registration details shown here are prototype detail — HHFT confirms them when you register.
Eco-Stewards are HHFT's volunteer corps. On a work day you will be pulling invasive species, planting natives, or preparing a site, working alongside staff for about three hours.
Bring closed sturdy shoes, long trousers and sleeves, more water than you think you need, and sun protection. Tools, gloves and instruction are provided. Check Conditions the morning of — August work days on this corridor have run under Heat Advisories, and we will move or shorten a day rather than run it in dangerous heat.
Getting in, and getting around
- Step-free route
- No
- Somewhere to sit
- No
- ASL interpreted
- No
- Assistive listening
- No
- Terrain
- Work happens off the path on uneven ground: slopes, roots, loose stone and mud. Expect to carry tools a few hundred yards from the meeting point. There is no step-free route to the work area.
No toilet at the meeting point; the nearest is in Cold Spring village, about a mile away. No shade at the work area for part of the morning. If you want to take part and the terrain is a barrier, email info@hhft.org — there is other work, and being told what is possible is more useful than being told everyone is welcome.
Every heading above appears on every event, including the ones where the answer is no. A missing heading is ambiguous; “ASL interpreted: No” is information.
Where it meets
Other events
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Mid-week planting morning
Little Stony Point — Meet at the Little Stony Point parking area on Route 9D.
A short weekday session for volunteers who cannot make a Saturday. Shoreline planting near Little Stony Point.
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Tide talk at Dockside Park
Dockside Park — Meet at the Dockside Park waterfront, about a five-minute walk from Cold Spring Metro-North station.
Forty-five minutes at the water's edge on what it means that the Hudson here is a tidal estuary — timed to low water so there is something to look at.
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Eco-Steward work day
Little Stony Point — Meet at the Little Stony Point parking area on Route 9D. Look for the HHFT banner.
The September work day: autumn planting and invasive removal along the corridor, with HHFT staff. No experience needed.