Fjord Trail Cold Spring → Beacon, NY

Closed Breakneck Ridge station is closed

What to do instead Get off at Cold Spring for the southern trail, Beacon for the northern.

What to do instead Full notice

No trains stop here. Closed April 2025, being rebuilt as part of the Fjord Trail.

active From Mon, Apr 21, 12:00 AM, until further notice Source: Metro-North

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Trailhead

Dockside Park

Mile 0.03

Planned
TUE, AUG 11

River Reach closed for boardwalk works

Go via the Washburn and Cornish trails. Adds 25 minutes, steep, not step-free.

Tue, Aug 11, 6:00 AM–4:00 PM · HHFT

Today

Main entry point · Village of Cold Spring, Putnam County

Hours
Open now until 8:01 pm (sunset).

Sunrise and sunset are computed for this point on the river, and work offline.

Parking
No parking
Restrooms
Planned
By train
Cold Spring 0.2 mi

Access

Never surveyed

Step-free arrival
Not yet established
Accessible restroom
Not yet established
Accessible parking
Not yet established
Surface on arrival
Not yet established
Lighting
Not yet established
Seating
Not yet established
Shade
Not yet established
Service animal relief
Not yet established
Phone signal
Unreliable

Signal along the corridor is patchy and drops out entirely in places. Save the map and the trail pages before you leave — they work with no signal.

Not yet surveyed. This entry point is not built.

Sections from here

1

0.0 – 2.1

Fjord Trail South — River Reach

Planned

2.11 mi · running slope 1.4% typ · 12.2% max · 58 min

Coming up here

3

  • 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.

  • Trail monitor training

    Dockside Park — Meet at Dockside Park, Cold Spring — a five-minute walk from Cold Spring Metro-North station.

    Learn to record what a path is actually like — width, slope, surface, obstacles — and help build the accessibility data this website publishes.

  • Winter river walk

    Dockside Park — Meet at Dockside Park, Cold Spring.

    An hour on the Cold Spring waterfront in the quietest month of the year, when the ice comes down the river and there is nobody about.

The view north from the shoreline at Dockside Park: a bank of rounded cobbles and boulders running away to the right, a row of weathered timber piles standing in the shallows, open water beyond them, and the wooded mountains upriver in summer haze.
Photograph · Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail, Inc. / NYS OPRHP — Final GEIS, January 2026 Dockside Park, Cold Spring as it is today. FGEIS Figure IV.G-12 (dated 12.18.25), photo "a" — existing view.

Position from OpenStreetMap · ±10 m