Tourne County Park

Tourne County Park (2/16/2009)

This is the Hike of the Week for 6/8/2007 as described on the NY-NJ Trail Conference website. Laura is still nursing a strained ankle, but everyone who has looked at it (including a specialist) said that exercising it was necessary (as in hiking), but that we shouldn't be excessive with it for a while. So we did this short hike (2 miles in under 90 minutes) on this crisp, sunny President's Day afternoon, a 20-minute drive from our home. The last time we hiked this nice little county park was at least ten years ago. This hike involved a gentle meander through a wildflower garden (where signs identified the many plants and trees along the path), and then a gradual climb to the park's high point, where now resides a 9/11 makeshift memorial overlooking the Manhattan skyline.

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