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Madam Brett Park
Secondary entry · City of Beacon, Dutchess County
- Status
- Planned — not built yet
- Today
- Open — Open now until 8:02 pm (sunset).
Event
Family nature hour at Madam Brett Park
An hour of creek-side looking, listening and pond-dipping for children roughly 4 to 10, with their grown-ups. Short distances, close to the car park.
- When
- , 10:00 AM–11:00 AM Eastern
- Where
- Madam Brett Park — Meet at the Madam Brett Park entrance in Beacon.
- Who it is for
- Children about 4 to 10 with an adult. One adult per two children.
- Cost
- Free · booking required · 30 places
Demonstration content. This event was written for the prototype to exercise the calendar, its filters and its accessibility fields. It is not a scheduled HHFT event.
Designed for small legs: total walking distance about a quarter of a mile, never more than five minutes from the entrance, and it finishes on time.
Getting in, and getting around
- Step-free route
- Yes
- Somewhere to sit
- No
- ASL interpreted
- No
- Assistive listening
- No
- Terrain
- Compacted natural surface, mostly level, with one short slope of about 8% near the creek. Buggy-friendly in dry weather; the surface holds water after rain and can be muddy.
No toilets in the park. There are no private nursing facilities; there is a bench by the entrance and staff will happily keep a spot clear. Our location for this park's entrance is accurate to about 100 metres — the map pin shows that uncertainty.
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
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Mid-week planting morning
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A short weekday session for volunteers who cannot make a Saturday. Shoreline planting near Little Stony Point.
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Eco-Steward work day
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Volunteer habitat work with HHFT staff along the corridor: invasive removal, planting and site care. No experience needed; tools and gloves provided.
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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.