Calling all hikers! Pack your backpack and get ready for outdoor adventure. Discover a multitude of trails with spectacular and panoramic views of the Adirondack Mountains and the Hudson Valley when you trek across the John Boyd Thatcher Park. It’s located minutes outside of Albany and is a picture perfect park for nature photographers too!
Explore an underground adventure! Step inside an elevator to travel 156 feet underground to enter a prehistoric cave in the making for a mere 6 million years. Howe Caverns Adventure Park is home to the most remarkable and mesmerizing limestone. The stalactites, stalagmites and flowstone formations are the best you'll ever see.
Outdoor lovers go to Albany Pine Bush Preserve. Hikers naturally want to spend time at a nature preserve that treks along trails where visitors camp out to enjoy bird watching, hiking, jogging, horseback riding and even cross-country skiing! Enjoy conservation and recreation!