Mission
The Town of Philipstown Greenway Committee is a special committee of the Town of Philipstown whose members are approved by the Philipstown Town Board. The committee is charged with promoting and facilitating access to the Hudson River Valley Greenway Trail System in all its forms: Woodland Trails, Bicycle Routes and the Hudson River Water Trail. The committee promotes the completion of each of the three types of Greenway Trails across the north-south extent of Philipstown, enabling Putnam County to become the first county to create an uninterrupted cross-county Greenway Trail link within the 13-county Hudson River Valley Greenway Trail system.
Planful access to the outdoors creates links betweens communities along the river and encourages non-motorized travel to sites of historic inerest, awesome physical beauty and recreational value. We are guided by the Hudson River Valley Greenway Trail Vision Plan created by the New York State Legislature in 1991.
The committee is currently working to create a separated, continous multi-use trail along Route 9D in Philipstown, which is already designated as a Scenic Byway by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The trail would extend from Breakneck Ridge in the north to the Bear Mountain Bridge in the south.
Town of Philipstown Greenway Committee members are:
Michael McKee, Chair
Howard Kaplowitz
Hank Osborn
Marshall Mermell
Nat Prentice
Planful access to the outdoors creates links betweens communities along the river and encourages non-motorized travel to sites of historic inerest, awesome physical beauty and recreational value. We are guided by the Hudson River Valley Greenway Trail Vision Plan created by the New York State Legislature in 1991.
The committee is currently working to create a separated, continous multi-use trail along Route 9D in Philipstown, which is already designated as a Scenic Byway by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The trail would extend from Breakneck Ridge in the north to the Bear Mountain Bridge in the south.
Town of Philipstown Greenway Committee members are:
Michael McKee, Chair
Howard Kaplowitz
Hank Osborn
Marshall Mermell
Nat Prentice