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

Little Stony Point

Mile 0.83

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 · Town of Philipstown, 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
Washburn Lot Expansion — open
Restrooms
Planned
By train
Cold Spring 0.9 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

4

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Guided climb: Washburn Trail to the Cornish ruins

    Little Stony Point — Meet at the Little Stony Point parking area on Route 9D. Coming from Cold Spring station, allow 25 minutes for the mile walk along the road shoulder — there is no separated footway for part of it.

    Four hours and about 1,000 feet of climbing on a state-park trail where roughly 90% of the route is steeper than a 5% grade. This one is hard, and we are not going to soften that.

The gravel beach at Little Stony Point, with a handful of people at the water line and the steep wooded shoulder of the Highlands rising straight out of the river behind, trees just turning.
Photograph · Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail (photographer not credited on source) Little Stony Point.

Position from OpenStreetMap · ±10 m