Tahawus Trails LLC

Tahawus is Hiring North Country staff for the upcoming season!

Are you someone who enjoys working outside, creating beautiful things with your hands, problem solving, working independently but also with a fun team?!

Find more details on our website: https://www.tahawustrails.com/jobs

We're wrapping up another jam packed trail season as snow and cold temps creep in to most of our work sites. Thank you to all our incredible staff who make this work meaningful, collaborative and enjoyable! Keep an eye out for more recaps from a busy season! As you can see, we worked in a lot of different places.

Many thanks to Barkeater Trails Alliance, who completed a new 3,700-foot trail at the Adirondack Land Trust’s Three Sisters Preserve in Wilmington.

The downhill-only biking trail is named Flobus—a play on Pinus strobus, the Latin name for a white pine tree, and “flow” to describe the type of experience it offers. In addition to becoming a fast favorite, the new trail alleviates pressure on the preserve’s two-way trails shared by walkers, runners, and bikers.

Anyone ever heard of wattling? When we designed the large observation deck for Stratton Falls, we knew we wanted it to look like a fairytale, but we had fun taking it even one step further by implementing a technique that dates back 6000 years for the decorative portion of the base of the deck. We didn’t like how you could see the massive piers and the engineering that holds the deck up, so we masked the piers with branches by using what is called wattle construction. Wattling is done by weaving flexible branches around upright stakes to form a woven lattice. In our case, our crew had to soak the branches first to get them to be flexible enough to weave.

And according to Wikipedia: “Evidence of wattle construction was found at Woodcutts Settlement from the British Iron Age, and the Roman Vitruvius wrote about wattles in his book on architecture, De architectura, but the technique goes back to Neolithic times.”

You can still see thousand-year-old wattle fences around pastures in the British and Irish and Welsh countryside. They have such a fairytale-like quality to them in that setting so, well, we, well, wanted to bring it to Stratton Falls…

Photo taken today, 10/19/23

OSI Begins Final Improvement Project at Fahnestock’s Hubbard Perkins Loop Trail Construction of pedestrian bridge will conclude 10-year effort to improve public access to OSI protected lands in northern section of park.

Tahawus Trails is hiring. We are looking for an Office Administrator. This is a flexible position. It could be a part time or full time , 100% devoted to the administrative side of Tahawus or could be part administrative and part-field based.

https://www.tahawustrails.com/jobs

The reconstructed Breakneck Ridge Trail to the “Upper Overlook” and Steward Station is complete.

Announcements Breakneck Trailhead to Reopen on July 1, 2023 Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail, Inc., the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP), and the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference (NYNJTC) announced on June 23, 2023 that work at the Upper Overlook area of the Breakneck T...