Walk in Winter!
Winter is Great for Walking On Our Preserves
One of the best times of year to see the land we’ve protected is winter. Especially if there’s a covering of snow, the contours stand out, the hills and valleys are easy to read.
Our annual Leon Levy Winter Walk is set for Sunday, February 28, at the Old Church Lane Preserve, in Lewisboro, one of the least well-known of the eight of our preserves that have trails.
The walk is supported by the Jerome Levy Foundation, and honors the late Leon Levy, whose generosity helped establish the Leon Levy Preserve, in Lewisboro. The walk is free and open to the public.
Don’t forget to visit our other preserves as well, which you can learn about here. Westchester Wilderness Walk, in Pound Ridge, offers miles and miles of trails. Pine Croft Meadow and Tom Burke Preserve, in Lewisboro and Bedford Hills, respectively, are only about seven acres each but feature a terrific meadow habitat in which you can occasionally spot interesting birds, such as kestrels.
There are beautiful woods and brooks at the Frederick P. Rose Preserve, in Lewisboro, and the Guard Hill Preserve, in Bedford, has a trail that skirts some of the most beautiful paddocks in the region.
In Yorktown, the Danner Family Preserve has beautiful, wide trails through transitional woods that teem with birds, and the trails at the Hunter Brook Preserve follow that wide waterway as it flows toward the Croton Reservoir.
So get out and walk!
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