Cascade trailhead to be temporarily relocated
LAKE PLACID – The state Department of Environmental Conservation will temporarily move hikers from the popular, and often overflowing, parking areas outside of Lake Placid due to an anticipated crush of hikers over the Columbus Day weekend.
Hikers will not be allowed to park at any of the parking areas for Cascade and Porter mountains or Pitchoff Mountain. Instead, those parking areas will be closed, and hikers must park at the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic facilities.
From dusk on Thursday, Oct. 5 through Monday, Oct. 9, the parking areas on state Route 73 will be closed, with state police and the Essex County Sheriff’s Office enforcing the parking ban.
Hikers will be sent to Mount Van Hoevenberg for free parking. From there, hikers will walk a 2-mile cross-country ski trail to access the Cascade trail.
The parking situation will greatly increase the length of the Cascade Mountain trip, from its current 4.8 miles round-trip to 8.6 miles.
The Pitchoff Mountain trail will more than double due to parking at Van Ho. The current Pitchoff hike is 4 miles round-trip, and the new route will be 8.4 miles round-trip, including road walking and traversing a private driveway.
Mount Van Hoevenberg is home to Lake Placid’s bobsled-luge-skeleton track and biathlon shooting range as well as its cross-country ski trails.
For more information, go to “http://www.dec.ny.gov/press/111497.html”>www.dec.ny.gov/press/111497.html.
Cascade trailhead to be temporarily relocated
LAKE PLACID – The state Department of Environmental Conservation will temporarily move hikers from the popular, and often overflowing, parking areas outside of Lake Placid due to the anticipated crush of hikers over the Columbus Day Weekend.
Hikers will not be allowed to park at any of the parking areas for Cascade and Porter mountains or Pitchoff Mountain. Instead, those parking areas will be closed and hikers will be forced to park at Mount Van Hoevenberg.
From dusk on Thursday, Oct. 5 through Monday, Oct. 9, the parking areas on state Route 73 will be closed, with state police and the Essex County Sheriff enforcing the parking ban.
Hikers will be sent to the Olympic facilities at Van Ho for free parking. From there, hikers will have to walk a 2-mile cross-country ski trail to access the Cascade trail. The parking situation will greatly increase the Cascade Mountain trip, from its current 4.8 miles round-trip to 8.6 miles.
The Pitchoff Mountain trail will more than double due to parking at Van Ho. The current Pitchoff hike is 4 miles roundtrip, and the new route will be 8.4 miles roundtrip, including road walking and traversing a private driveway.
For more information, go to www.dec.ny.gov/press/111497.html.