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A crew of three Mohawk Towpath Byway volunteers participated in a Mohawk-Hudson Region Sports Car Club of America road rally to gain experience with this type of event. Is it practical for us to do a road rally next spring to feature the Mohawk Towpath Scenic Byway. The rally we participated in this weekend was a game, tour, and adventure (GTA) that started in Halfmoon and ended in Bennington, Vermont, to pay homage to our veterans.

It was fun as a game since we were pitted against 17 other teams to accumulate up to as many as 3,600 points for various finds along the way. For example:

…we earned 27 points for finding this bell from the SS Saratoga

… and 300 points for this checkpoint at the Bennington Battlefield!

It was a tour since we went on some local and less used state roads through rural agricultural areas. How many covered bridges are there in Washington County? Each was worth 40 points!

It was an adventure to go places we were unfamiliar with and learn about some of the history that forged our nation.

Could we do this on the Byway? You can safely bet on it! Plan to join us with a minimum team consisting of a driver and a navigator, but you can fill your vehicle with others to round out a winning team on the Mohawk Towpath Byway April 14, 2024.

These photographs were taken by our team’s navigator Jeff Slater.