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Long Dock Park
Main entry point · City of Beacon, Dutchess County
- Status
- Planned — not built yet
- Today
- Open — Open now until 8:02 pm (sunset).
Event
Riverside bird walk at Long Dock Park
A slow, level, ninety-minute walk on the Beacon waterfront during autumn migration. Step-free throughout, benches every few hundred feet, binoculars to borrow.
- When
- , 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Eastern
- Where
- Long Dock Park — Meet by the main park entrance at Long Dock Park, about a five-minute level walk from Beacon Metro-North station. The route from the station is paved and step-free.
- Who it is for
- All ages. Children welcome with an adult.
- Cost
- Free · booking required · 20 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.
An easy morning on flat ground beside the river, moving slowly and stopping often. Long Dock Park is a two-hundred-yard walk from Beacon station, which makes this the most car-free event on the programme.
Some binoculars are available to borrow. No experience needed and no equipment required.
Getting in, and getting around
- Step-free route
- Yes
- Somewhere to sit
- Yes
- ASL interpreted
- No
- Assistive listening
- No
- Terrain
- Paved and compacted level paths throughout, no gradient above about 3%. Benches roughly every 300 feet. The group walks slowly and stops frequently; the total distance is under a mile.
Accessible toilets are in the park building during opening hours. This walk is not ASL interpreted — email info@hhft.org at least ten days ahead and we will try to arrange it. There is no assistive listening equipment.
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Where it meets
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Eco-Steward work day
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