Trailhead
Dockside Park
Main entry point · Village of Cold Spring, Putnam County
- Status
- Planned — not built yet
- Today
- Open — Open now until 8:01 pm (sunset).
Event
Tide talk at Dockside Park
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.
- When
- , 4:00 PM–4:45 PM Eastern
- Where
- Dockside Park — Meet at the Dockside Park waterfront, about a five-minute walk from Cold Spring Metro-North station.
- Who it is for
- All ages.
- Cost
- Free
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.
The Hudson at Beacon rises and falls twice a day, and the marsh reaches of the future trail are built in that zone. This short session is timed against NOAA's published tide predictions for station 8518934 at Beacon — the same predictions this website carries, and the same ones it stores offline so they work with no signal.
Getting in, and getting around
- Step-free route
- Yes
- Somewhere to sit
- Yes
- ASL interpreted
- No
- Assistive listening
- No
- Terrain
- Level grass and compacted surface from the park entrance to the waterfront. The last few yards to the water's edge are stone and are not step-free; the talk itself is given from the level area and you can hear it all without going down.
No toilets in the park; the nearest are in Cold Spring village, five minutes away. The speaker is unamplified and there is no assistive listening equipment — stand close and let us know if you need us to.
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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Eco-Steward work day
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.
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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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.