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
Trail monitor training
Learn to record what a path is actually like — width, slope, surface, obstacles — and help build the accessibility data this website publishes.
- When
- , 9:30 AM–1:00 PM Eastern
- Where
- Dockside Park — Meet at Dockside Park, Cold Spring — a five-minute walk from Cold Spring Metro-North station.
- Who it is for
- Adults. No prior experience needed.
- Cost
- Free · booking required · 12 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.
A practical half-day on trail assessment: how to use a measuring wheel, a digital level and a tape, what the five measurements on a trailhead sign mean, how to photograph an obstacle so the photograph is useful, and how to file what you find.
This is the pipeline behind the numbers on every segment page. Today those numbers are design intent and modelled terrain; volunteers with a wheel and a level are how they become measurements.
Getting in, and getting around
- Step-free route
- Yes
- Somewhere to sit
- Yes
- ASL interpreted
- No
- Assistive listening
- No
- Terrain
- The classroom part and the practice measuring are both on level, firm ground at Dockside Park. Anyone who can get to the park can take part.
Wheelchair users are particularly welcome on this one: assessing a path is more accurate when the people doing it use it differently. Nearest toilets are in Cold Spring village.
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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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.