Notices for hikers
This page contains important notices to club members and trail users regarding trails maintained by the Cayuga Trails Club. Please check this page if you are planning a hike. Click here to sort list by map number. Click here for archives.
Current notices
| Date/Map | Notice |
| Sep. 6, 08 M15 | There is a short reroute of the FLT near Texas Hollow State Forest. Hiking west to east, come down a private landowner's driveway and cross Texas Hollow Road (we used to turn sharply right on the road) and enter the woods, part of Texas Hollow State Forest. Follow new white blazes through mixed hardwood and boggy areas, approximately 0.3 miles until you emerge from the woods onto the driveway that leads to the pond. Turn left and follow older white blazes on established trail, heading towards Newtown Road. Thanks to: Roger Hopkins, Phil Danert, Dave Burnett, Jack VanDerzee and landowner Richard Griffin who all came out on September 5th to take a small section of FLT off a town road and locate it in a much friendlier environment for hikers - Mallow, Trails Chair |
| Sep. 4, 08 M15 | There are two new puncheon bridges in Texas Hollow State Forest, just east of the large pond. The new bridges span boggy areas where older puncheons had about worn out. You'll find the hiking much easier, safer and faster here due to the efforts of Chris and Melonie, leaders of a Cornell University Wilderness Reflections group, along with volunteers Roger Hopkins, Dave Schurman, John Skawski, Christopher Skawski, and Patrick Skawski. Total length of the new bridges is 80 feet. They are very solidly built and should endure at least until the next generation of hikers comes around. - Mallow, Trails Chair |
| Sep. 4, 08 M16 | There is a new reroute in Robert Treman State Park, due to closure of an old road bridge suffering from infrastructure deterioration. Hiking west to east, cross Woodard Road and proceed straight ahead on the grassy service road. Note the stone monument on the left describing the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp that was located here during the Great Depression. At this point, take a sharp right turn and follow new white blazes through a brushy area along the Fish Kill Creek to a ford approximately 300 yards upstream. Ford the creek and follow new white blazes through brushy areas downstream approximately 300 yards, rejoining older section of trail. Continue eastward up the steep hill on switchbacks and onwards to Routes 13/34/96. New High Water Alternative over Fish Kill Creek: If water in Fish Kill Creek is too high to ford safely, return to the stone monument and take the blue-blazed/orange-blazed Old CCC Camp Spur Trail to the Old Mill in Upper Treman State Park. Continue to follow the blue blazes along the parking area to the South Rim Trail. Follow blue blazes past the overlook and junction with a service road on your right. Soon after you pass the service road, take a right turn off the South Rim Trail to connect with main FLT, blazed white. At this point, the blue blazes end; turn left on the FLT and continue to follow white blazes eastward to Routes 13/34/96. - Mallow, Trails Chair |
| Jul. 18, 08 M18 | Four volunteers cut, blazed, and GPS-plotted a very short reroute off Shindagin Hollow Road on July 17th. This one-tenth mile section takes the trail off road for a short distance and takes hikers through a beautiful section of young hardwood forest near a brook. Although not huge, it does meet the trails conference and NCTA goals of taking trail off road wherever possible. Thanks to Phil, Tom, Roger, and Joe for their work. - Mallow, Trails Chair |
| Jul. 18, 08 Cayuga Trail | 12 Cayuga Trails Club volunteers, including two interns from Cornell Natural Areas, materially improved the experience of hikers and runners on the Cayuga Trail on July 12 with the construction of forty feet of new puncheon brigde and refit and refurbishment of twenty feet of puncheon that was constructed by the club 20 years ago. The location is just over the suspension bridge across Fall Creek from Forest Home Drive. That's 60 feet of secure footing in a perennially wet spot. Thanks everybody for a good day's work. - Mallow, Trails Chair |
| Jun. 6, 08 M16 | The off-road trail from Rumsey Hill Rd. to Trumbull Corners Rd. is now closed. From west to east at the intersection of Rumsey Hill Rd. and Connecticut Hill Rd., turn right (hikers used to turn left) and continue 0.6 mile until you reach the road's end at Trumbull Corners Rd. Turn left on Trumbull Corners Rd. and continue 0.5 mile to pick up the white blazes along the road. Hikers are welcome to go off the main FLT and take a side hike on the blazed trail in the Stevenson Preserve, a nature preserve owned by the Finger Lakes Land Trust. Be alert to signs indicating where the preserve boundaries exist, and please respect landowner requests by not crossing onto neighboring properties. - Mallow, Trails Chair |
| May. 29, 08 M18 | The Finger Lakes Trail between Blackman Hill Road and NY Route 79 has been rerouted along roads because of loss of permission from a landowner. From west to east: emerge from Potato Hill State Foest at mile 12.8, turn left (west ) onto Blackman Hill Road for 1.1 miles, turn right (northwest ) on Level Green Road for 1.9 miles, and turn right (east) on NY 79 for 0.8 mile, picking up the existing FLT near the Tompkins-Tioga County line. The reroute along these roads is very sparsely blazed with white blazes (only road intersections) as it is hoped to remove the trail from some of these roads soon. The FLTC map has been updated with a revision date of 5/08. Total distance on this map increases by 1.4 miles. About half our trail crosses private property, and the trail exists on those properties through the hard work of past club members over many years to obtain permission to cross those properties, and due to the generosity of the landowners themselves. - Mallow, Trails Chair |
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