2-state trail · Long-distance trail

Long Path

358 mi long · across 2 states · centroid 34 mi from New York

The Long Path runs 358 miles from the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge through the Hudson River valley and Catskill Mountains to John Boyd Thacher State Park near Albany, New York. Maintained by the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, it was conceived in the 1930s and largely completed by the 1980s.

Long Path
Photo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).
States
New Jersey, New York
Length
358 mi
Trail type
Long-distance trail
Network
Regional (rwn)
Centroid nearest city
New York, NY · 34 mi · ~60 min drive
Centroid coords
40.9397°, -74.5726°
Official site
nynjtc.org/long-path
OSM relations
2 sub-relations on OpenStreetMap
From Wikipedia: The Long Path is a 357-mile (575 km) long-distance hiking trail beginning in New York City, at the West 175th Street subway station near the George Washington Bridge and ending at Altamont, New York, in the Albany area. While not yet a continuous trail, relying on road walks in some areas, it nevertheless takes in many of the popular hiking attractions west of the Hudson River, such as the New Jersey Palisades, Harriman State Park, the Shawangunk Ridge and the Catskill Mountains. It offers hikers a diversity of environments to pass through, from suburbia and sea-level salt marshes along the Hudson to wilderness and boreal forest on Catskill summits 4,000 feet (1,220 m) in elevation. Excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Long Path, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Termini

Start & end

Southern terminus: George Washington Bridge, New Jersey.

Northern terminus: John Boyd Thacher State Park, New York.

Plan your hike

Practical notes

Maps + permits: long-distance trails like this often require permits for through-hiking, backcountry camping, or specific sections (especially in National Parks). Check with the maintaining organisation listed above and the relevant land manager before booking travel.

Water + supplies: water sources vary seasonally on most U.S. trails. Carry a filter and consult current trail-condition reports — through-hiker journals (PCT-L, AT Reddit, etc.) and the maintaining organisation publish regular updates.

When to go: hiking seasons vary widely with elevation, latitude, and snowpack. Through-hikers traditionally start the AT in March-April (Springer northbound) and the PCT in late April (Campo northbound). High-elevation western trails (CDT, JMT, Wonderland) generally aren't passable until July.

If you've hiked Long Path and have current notes (water sources, trail closures, permit changes), tell us at /contact — we update pages as we learn.

Stay nearby

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Sources

Public data + curation

Trail data on this page is compiled from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), the maintaining organisation's public-facing materials, and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA where excerpts are quoted). Distance, terminus, and descriptive text for nationally-designated trails are hand-curated from federal land-manager websites and trail-association sources. We do not modify the underlying data; this page presents what is already publicly recorded. To suggest corrections, see our methodology page.