Ashokan Rail Trail- Boiceville Bridge Trailhead — Attraction in Town of Olive

Wonderful trail. Panoramic open views of the catskill mountains starting at mile 1.75. But views of the mountains and reservoir looking through trees for the first 2 miles. After two miles, just trees but they are beautiful. Gravel surface. Nice surface for running. Plenty of shade. This trail inspired us to fall in love with Boiceville / Phoenecia Chichester and buy a summer home (from Florida) in Chichester. Feels like running in the AC for Floridians. Not overly crowded but popular. There is construction at the beginning including the parking area but that doesn't interfere with the beauty of the trail once you start. And there is still...

Beautiful scenery. Porta potties at the trail heads and mid point. IGA Grocery store that makes excellent sandwiches on the west approach to the trail head, Olive NY side. Restrooms too. google IGA Olive NY. Entrance to the west trailhead parking has alot of construction. look carefully for the parking lot entrance sign. It is immediately next to the construction lot driveway entrance. There was a construction flag man directing traffic there last week. Prolific poison ivy on the long straight stone wall towards the east side of the trail. Posted as such. The views are...

We absolutely love rail trails! Where in the Catskill awaits a relatively new, 2019, 11.5 one-way gem of a trail. We are bicyclists and new that 23 miles was an easy goal. Since we're from North East Pennsylvania we opted to start at the western trailhead in Boicieville. Much history explained on trail-side signage. There are 3 trailheads, one on each end and one near the center giving great access and convienve for many accom-modating options. Also to extend options one may cross the causeway and explore public areas on the reservoirs south shore where we hope...