Capital Region History Hikes and Nature Walks
Selected Adventures in the Upper Hudson Valley, Eastern Mohawk Valley & the Berkshires

BY RUSSELL DUNN & BARBARA DELANEY

Trade Paper, 6″ x 9″, 288 pages
140+ illustrations including maps, full-color photographs & vintage postcards
ISBN 9798985692198 $22.95

THE AUTHORS OF MORE THAN 30 GUIDEBOOKS to the great outdoors of New York State and New England, including 4 previous collections of history hikes, lead the way to another 30 scenic historic trails in the greater Capital Region of New York—Albany and Albany County, Schenectady County and the eastern Mohawk Valley, Troy and Rensselaer County, and the Berkshires of Massachusetts.
Explore sections of the old Erie and Champlain canals that made New York an economic powerhouse in the 19th century. Walk in the footsteps of the real-life “Uncle Sam.” Visit an old abandoned quarry that looks as though the workers just walked off the job, leaving all of their equipment scattered about. Explore the ruins of grand hotels and great estates. Look for signs of abandoned icehouses and old farms and homesteads. Visit a small colonial fort that withstood a Tory and Indian siege during the Revolution. Enjoy stunning five-state views and quiet walks through nature preserves to hidden waterfalls and steeply cut ravines. Hike trails through the sand dunes of a globally rare inland pine barrens—a relic of the last ice age and its extinct glacial lake. Explore fascinating karst topography with its sinkholes and fissures, and marvel at some of the region’s glacial erratics and other striking rock formations.

The Hikes
Albany Pine Bush Preserve • The Search for Colonial Fort Sites in Albany • Tivoli Nature Preserve • Normanskill Gorge and Beyond • Wolf Creek Falls Preserve • Schodack Island State Park • Winn Preserve • Prospect Park & the Legacy of “Uncle” Sam Wilson • Cherry Plain State Park • Poestenkill Community Forest • Valentino Family Community Forest • North Chuctanunda Creek • Schoharie Crossing • Schoharie Village Adventures (Old Stone Fort Museum Complex • Lily Park • Palatine House Museum • Lasalle Park) • Glasgow Mills Pond & Ruins • Schenectady County Forest Preserve • Fox Preserve • Waterford Flight of Locks • Old Champlain Canal Lock 7 • Anchor Diamond Park at Hawkwood • LeVine Nature Preserve • Mohawk Landing Nature Preserve • Swatling Falls Nature Trails • John Drummond Kennedy Park • Keystone Arch Bridges Trail • Mt. Greylock Selected Hikes

Featuring more than 140 full-color and B&W illustrations including maps and vintage postcards, and with GPS coordinates and detailed driving and hiking directions.

The Authors
Russell Dunn and Barbara Delaney are a husband and wife writing team that has been collaborating for more than twenty years on history-oriented hiking guidebooks. Their first four books were Trails with Tales, Adirondack Trails with Tales, Paths to the Past and Hudson Valley History Hikes.
Barbara and Russell are former New York State–licensed hiking guides. For fifteen consecutive years they led hikes to waterfalls in the Adirondacks. The hikes came to be known as “Waterfall Weekend” and took place annually in early May in the Keene Valley area.
In addition to coauthoring the history hike guidebooks, Russell has written many other regional outdoors guidebooks to eastern New York State and New England, including nine waterfall guidebooks, five paddling guidebooks, and seven guidebooks to regional glacial erratics and other unusual rock formations. He has also published a series of anaglyph 3-D books.
Barbara has become well-known for her two books of regional historical fiction, Finding Griffin: An Adirondack Novel and Follansbee Pond Secrets.
Between them they have now authored 49 published books.
They live in Albany, New York, and can be reached at Russell’s email: rdunnwaterfalls@yahoo.com.