Have you been to the trail that climbs from Rte. 23A at Bastion Falls to Kaaterskill Falls?
It has been thoroughly renovated. Several small staircases have been added, but a very large staircase takes hikers around and to the right of the falls. This has been badly needed. Over the decades, foot traffic has been eroding into the slope, damaging it greatly.
Take a look and see the trail as it was. Do you see how “pounded” it had gotten? Now see a photo we took just the other day (below). Looks a lot better, doesn’t it.
The new staircase eventually joins the Blue Trail and takes hikers to the top of Kaaterskill Falls.
This is something that we have been wanting for decades. We plan to do a series of articles, in the Woodstock times, about this.
