July 28, 6 PM: Annual Meeting and Potluck Supper with special guest speaker Michael Barrett of Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway, Burden Iron Works Museum. At the Copake Iron Works, 33 Valley View Road, Copake Falls.

A naturalist from Robinson Wildlife will offer a series of free wildlife presentations at Taconic State Park in 2016, on June 25, July 23 and August 18, featuring birds of prey, and reptiles. Live raptors and and owl, plus various reptiles. Each bird has its own unique adaptations for survival, as do the reptiles, and

Copake Falls Day is a town-wide event with multiple events throughout the village, starting with a morning 5K race (above), and including Margaret Roach’s open garden and 11 AM slide talk by landscape architect Thomas Rainer on “Planting in a Post-Wild World,” followed by Rainer's afternoon workshop on designing plant communities. (Members of the Copake

Join Friends of Taconic State Park for a strenuous, but spectacular hike led by expert guide Claudia Farb on a significant, newly opened 6.5-mile stretch of the South Taconic Trail. (See here for the particulars of this new trail section.) If you have hiked in the Taconic Mountains, you will appreciate the importance of this

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 Friends of Taconic State Park’s Vice President Jim Mackin for The Magnificent 7 Tree Tour. The tour will honor the trees in Taconic State Park around the historic Copake Iron Works and feature seven trees that are special in some interesting way. The tour will be an easy walk of about 1 mile and

  Join the Friends for their Annual Furnace Fest, preceded by an optional 10 AM to noon talk and walk led by lichenologist James Lendemer (above) of New York Botanical Garden. All are invited for lunch, music and other celebratory activities from 12-2 PM at the Iron Works historic site, 33 Valley View Road, Copake Falls.

  Join neighbors for a “Winter Walk in the Wilderness,” throughout the hamlet of Copake Falls. Friends of Taconic State Park will offer guided tours of the Copake Iron Works Museum on December 4, 2016, from 12:00 – 2:00 PM. A light lunch will be offered; donation suggested. Copake Iron Works: 33 Valley View Road,