Resources

The starting point for hiking on LI is the Long Island Greenbelt Trail Conference. The conference organizes hikes, prints maps and maintains trails.  We are all tremendously in their debt.

 

 

 

Hiking Long Island: A Comprehensive Guide To Parks And Trails, by Lee McAllister.  A paperback book that does a great job pointing you to the best places to hike.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Motion X GPS for the iPhone.  If you're lucky enough to have an iPhone, I can't recommend the Motion-X application highly enough.  It tells you where you are, records your progress on trails and, amazingly, emails a marked up map of your hike to you when you're done.  At $2.99, it's an incredible deal.  It even that modest amount is too much for you, the free Lite version is nearly as good.  (I believe the only difference is it limits the amount of way points you can mark.)  The only downside to Motion-X applies to all GPS iPhone apps:  It sucks battery power very rapidly, so you probably won't get more than 3 hours or so use out of it.