Hannacroix Creek Preserve — Attraction in Town of New Baltimore

This is another short trail with an amazing waterfall payoff. Nice little parking area. If you want to get straight to the falls, follow the Irving trail to where it dead ends. Irving trail is wide and gravel, but the first portion has a long hill you have to go up.

At the end, you will see a sign pointing left that says “Falls.” Turn left, ignore any side trails(blue and red.) There will be another “Falls” sign down the path. Follow that to another fork. The upper trail will give you the best view of the falls, but hold on to your kids if they are with you. It’s a sheer drop to the rocks and nothing to stop you. You can also take the lower, muddy, waterlogged trail which brings you right to the top of the falls.

Wear actual hiking boots and pants. On the way back, I decided to take the blue trail back to upper Irving. This was a decidedly more challenging hike up a muddy incline. Like, sliding, scrambling for tree roots for holds. Also, some blue flares here would be awesome. Only the start, end and junction of this trail has signs.

I then came back to the fork and took the “North trail back to the 144 parking lot”. At least this trail has some yellow flares with animal footprints on it. It does still have a confusing small side trail that teeters on the edge of a steep incline over the forest. I followed it for a little bit then turned around when it got too narrow and treacherous. The north trail brings you back to a gravel road where you walk back to the 144 lot. Overall, about 2 miles. I did not do the Hudson River interpretive trail. There were a few mosquitoes but not much for...

What a nice (and easy) hike! I found the Laverne Irving Trail within this preserve via AllTrails. The app said that it was a 2 minute drive from our Airbnb and that it was only about a 2.5 mile hike, with a waterfall. We got there at around 11 am and were afraid it was going to be super hot (went in mid-August) since it was hot and humid in the morning. Luckily, the entire trail is pretty much shaded, so it made for a nice and cool hike. The trail is mostly flat, so it is perfect if you are a beginner. The waterfall wasn't anything spectacular but the fell tree across the stream made for some great photo ops!

Tip - the turn for the preserve is easy to miss so make sure you drive slowly in the area so that you don't have to...

This trail is very muddy and lined with a lot of pricker bushes, trails not marked and there are allot of what appear to be trail junctures but I really couldn't tell for certain. Make sure you wear light colored clothes so you can see the deer ticks (I picked two of them off from me within 20 minutes). North trail was shown on the map at the trailhead as having a lookout point at the end, however it was not marked and eventually looked more like a deer trail, then it just plain disappeared. Only getting two stars because trailhead was very easy to locate and the water...