The New England and New York region has 2 historic trails and 3 scenic park unit trails. Here’s a quick summary in case you are interested in exploring them.

Historic trails

• Captain John Smith Chesapeake did not travel up the north Susquehanna River into New York, but the tributary is part of his trail anyway.
• Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route
  • In Massachusetts the trail begins and ends in Boston, where Lafayette landed.
  • In Rhode Island the trail begins in Newport, where the French fleet arrived.
  • In Connecticut the trail runs along the coast.
  • In New York the trail crosses through the Hudson River Valley.

Scenic trails

• Appalachian the trail cuts the southeast corner of New York, the northwest corner of Connecticut, north across the western edge of Massachusetts, up along the Green Mountains of Vermont, where it turns east, passes by Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller, hikes over the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and ends at Mount Katahdin in Maine.
• New England above crosses Connecticut and Massachusetts north to the edge of New Hampshire.
• North Country cuts through New York near Fort Stanwix, crosses through the Champlain Valley and ends at the Appalachian Trail in Vermont.