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From Aqueduct to Path (7/10/26)

We have landed in an area with easy access to a number of multi-use paths. We have already walked the Westchester Riverwalk right along the Hudson River and the pedestrian/bike path across the Hudson over the Mario Cuomo Bridge, today we walked a very short portion of the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail (OCA). This is a 26.5 mile linear state park that stretches from the New Croton Dam in Cortland, New York, to Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. It follows the path of an aqueduct constructed in 1842 and is now a multi-use path of varied surfaces (from hard packed dirt to grass to residential sidewalks).

We started on it a block from the house and headed north for a little over an hour before turning around and coming back into Tarrytown. Our walk roughly paralleled the Hudson River but much higher up. We started in a residential area before getting onto school property, then alongside the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and into Rockefeller State Park.

Our entrance onto the OCA
It is a great trail for summer, as it’s mostly shaded
(at least the section we walked).
It goes very close to people’s property, so we saw lots of backyards.
Like so.
The town starts at river level and goes steeply uphill,
so we looked either up or down from the mostly flat path.
Looking back towards the First Baptist Church (foreground)
and the Mario Cuomo Bridge (background)
A sign indicating the trail’s route around
the Sleepy Hollow Horseman School
A cute seating area behind the school
Looking back over rooftops towards the Mario Cuomo Bridge
An old structure near the trail
A helpful sign when we were briefly on a road
Walking along the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Part of a long brick wall in Rockefeller State Park

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