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ADVOCACY EDUCATION PRESERVATION STEWARDSHIP

Help Keep the Park Open!

Author:

FOCAAdmin

Post date:

04/09/2020 - 10:34am

Hello all: we would like to keep the Aqueduct trail park open, but this can only happen with your cooperation. Please observe social distancing rules, or the Park may have to close as has been done in New Jersey.

10 Activities You Can Do With Kids Outside

Author:

FOCAAdmin

Post date:

03/17/2020 - 5:59pm

We regret to announce that the Old Croton Aqueduct Keepers House will be closed until further notice. But don't forget the Trail is always open!

(Courtesy of our Friends at Teatown in Ossining)

With children staying home from school in the coming weeks, we wanted to share some family-friendly outdoor activities with our community as we practice social distancing:

Before and after reclamation of the Old Croton Aqueduct trail in Tarrytown

“New” Trail Section in Tarrytown: Reclamation Produces Transformation

Author:

Charlotte Fahn

Post date:

03/08/2020 - 9:30am

A parking lot that for more than 50 years has blighted a section of the Old Croton Aqueduct trail in Tarrytown is no more. Thanks to State Parks and the Village of Tarrytown, the parking lot - roughly paved, usually unkempt, and often full – has been replaced by a pristine swath of green, with a delineated path and new plantings.

Keeper's House Anecdotes

Author:

Mavis Cain

Post date:

02/06/2020 - 1:08pm

Visitors to the Keeper’s House in Dobbs Ferry often provide stories as intriguing as the house itself. Here’s a few; providing a big reward for those of us who work as docents there.

Echoes of Downton Abbey