Allegany State Park, NY – Volunteer Vacation 2024
June 9 @ 5:00 pm - June 15 @ 10:00 am
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Come explore Western New York’s Allegany State Park – home to 65,000 acres of primitive forested valleys, and un-glaciated landscape.
The project is a multi-year effort to revitalize the 20.6 miles of Finger Lakes Trail /North Country National Scenic Trail within Allegany State Park. Volunteers will work together to reroof and stain a lean-to, install switchbacks on a steep section of trail, replace 12 feet of at bridge, drainage cleaning, installation of water bars/rolling dips and removing slough and berms from trail benching, repair an outhouse and cleaning up the general area and brush clearing and blazing. Volunteers will be driven to the closest trailhead, and day hike to the project site. Depending on the assigned work for the day, the volunteers may return to the dropoff trailhead or another trailhead if it is closer.
During this trip, Allegany State Park’s average high temperature is 74°, and average low temperature is 52°.
There is no experience needed to join a Volunteer Vacation! Your expert hosts will provide detailed instruction, tool demonstrations, and project oversight throughout the week. All you need is a willing attitude and to be in good physical condition to participate in moderate physical activity for approximately 6-8 hours a day with plenty of breaks, at your own pace. Find out more about what it’s like to join a Volunteer Vacation and other frequently asked questions here.
AHS acknowledges with gratitude that this project takes place on the traditional lands of the Erie and Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga (Haudenosaunee) peoples past and present. We honor the land itself, the Indigenous communities who have stewarded this land for generations, their deep and sacred connection to these lands, and those who continue to steward these lands today. We offer this land acknowledgement as the first of many steps to stand as an ally and amplify Indigenous voices. We invite the American Hiking Society community to join us through continued efforts to support Indigenous communities and learn more about the history of the lands on which we live, work and recreate.
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