Category Archives: Recreation

Cycling Time Trial

30 Wednesday Mar 2016

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HRRT Cycling Team, Shenendehowa Rotary and the Friends of the Byway are partnering on a fun new event: an Apple Blossom Cycling Time Trial to be held as a part of the May 7 Apple Blossom Festival at Riverview Orchards.

The Time Trial will be an interval start 12 mile out and back bike ride with no entry fee this year.  Instead there will be a donation jar set up with proceeds going to the Friends of the Byway.  The Time Trial will start at 4 PM as some of the other Apple Blossom festivities are winding down.   If successful we hope that this can become a sanctioned annual event to start off the cycling competitive season.

Apple Blossom Cycling Time Trial Course

Apple Blossom Cycling Time Trial Course

Spring Brings Fishing

24 Sunday May 2015

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Spring brings fishing to the Byway.  I don’t have the patience to be a fisher, but many find relaxation, a challenge, a way to commune with nature, and some find a link to the past where life was a struggle for subsistence.

Here are some of the places I have seen people: male, female, young and old fishing. Some of the big trophy results include Bass, Muskies, and Catfish, but there are plenty of small ones to make it a thrill for youth and first timers.

Fishing at Vischer Ferry. Photo by Myla Kramer.

Fishing at Vischer Ferry. Photo by Myla Kramer.

Please remember to respect your natural environment:  if you carry it in, carry it out.  Leave nothing but footprints in the sand.

Looking to Warmer Weather

03 Tuesday Mar 2015

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Look for the Friends of the Mohawk Towpath Byway this weekend at the Adirondack Sports and Fitness Summer Expo at the Saratoga Springs City Center. The Expo is open from 10 AM until 5 PM on Saturday, March 7 and from 10 AM until 4 PM on Sunday, March 8. Features will include all kinds of ideas for summer fun from kayaking and cycling to birding. Find out where along the Byway you can take part in all of these activities.

We will also have a calendar of major festivals and events during the summer months, a brochure describing the Byway’s self guided tour, and membership information if you’d like to join the dynamic organization that is bringing major recreational improvements to the Mohawk Towpath Byway.

Our Booth

The Director of the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor visited the Byway’s booth in a previous year.