Summer Hike-a-thon offers free outdoor fun

BETHLEHEM — On Saturday, July 20, the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy is hosting a free Summer Hike-a-thon. This day-long celebration allows each participant to design an ideal summer day with free activities throughout the morning and into the afternoon with an emphasis on hiking and outdoor fun. 

Eight locations are being highlighted as representative of the conservancy’s 18 public preserves, covering 2,500 acres, which had over 15,000 visitors last year.

“We are particularly excited this year to offer two special tours — Wolf Hollow/Hoffman’s Fault in West Glenville and the Heldeberg Workshop in New Scotland — as these private lands are not normally open to the public,” said the conservancy’s director, Mark King, in a release on the event.

Free activities include a plein air painting workshop, mountain biking, a Fun Ride on the Albany County Helderberg-Hudson Rail Trail, geology, botany, and history hikes.