The Old Croton Aqueduct Trail runs flat and tree-shaded from Croton-on-Hudson along New York City's 1842 water pipeline, past stone ventilator towers.
The Old Croton Aqueduct is a 41-mile gravity-fed water pipeline built in 1842 to carry New York City's water supply from the Croton Dam all the way down to Manhattan reservoirs without any pumps. When New York State converted the Westchester portion, a 26.2-mile stretch running from the Croton Dam to the Bronx/Yonkers line, into parkland in 1968, this became the piece most people mean when they say the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail. The full original aqueduct continued into the city on city streets beyond that, but the maintained trail through Croton-on-Hudson is the part worth lacing up boots for.
Start near the river and you'll head north through riverside meadow and quiet second-growth woods, walking on a bed flat enough that you forget you're on top of a buried water pipe.
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