Join us on Thursday, July 27th at 6pm for a BBQ supper and a very special annual meeting, our 9th annual. Our featured speaker is renowned author David Nasaw, whose biographies of William Randolph Hearst, Joseph P. Kennedy and most recently, Andrew Carnegie, have been bestsellers. David will speak about how Carnegie's success led to
Join this mushroom walk and learn with John Michelotti of Catskill Fungi, president of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association, about the ecological functions of fungi, common edibles and medicinal mushrooms, as well as historic uses of fungi and present day innovations of the exceptional Kingdom Fungi! We will take a walk on an exceptional piece of
Join Friends of Taconic State Park for tours of the historic Copake Iron Works. Established in 1845 along Bash Bish Brook at the base of the Taconic Ridge, the Copake Iron Works and 18 acres surrounding the area were listed on the State and National Register of Historic Sites in 2007. The Copake Iron Works
Join the Friends of Taconic State Park membership and neighbors to celebrate the group's preservation work at a lunchtime cookout at the Copake Iron Works, Valley View Road, Copake Falls, from noon to 2. Hamburgers and hot dogs, music, and raffles.
The New Year is upon us! Please join us at 1 PM on New Year's Day at Taconic State Park Headquarters, 253 State Route 344 in Copake Falls, for our annual First Day Hike to the Bash Bish Falls, following the Ironworks Heritage Trail. This is a fun way to kick off the new year
Join us for a family friendly snowshoe adventure. We have some adult and children's snowshoes for you to borrow. If there is no snow, we will hike. Meet at the Park Office, Rte. 344 in Copake Falls. Join us after the hike for some hot chocolate and a roaring bonfire! For info or to sign
On Saturday July 28 at 6 PM, join the Friends of Taconic State Park for their 10th Annual Meeting, plus a BBQ supper. Renowned historian Joshua Freeman (left) is the featured speaker. Freeman’s recently published Behemoth – a History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World, is described as “rich and ambitious” by the New
Join us for our fifth annual Moth Night, part of the citizen-science project called National Moth Week, and organized by Margaret Roach’s A Way to Garden and the Friends of Taconic State Park, in Copake Falls, New York. BYO picnic supper if you please–we’ll provide dessert treats–to enjoy while you learn some Moth 101 from top experts, then experience