Little Stony Point Park    |    3011 Rt. 9D    |    Cold Spring, NY 10516   |      **Map**

Saturday May 11, 2013, 9am, We will be participating in Riverkeeper's Great Hudson River Sweep. Meet at Caretaker's House, 3011 Route 9D, Cold Spring.

The Little Stony Point Citizen's Association welcomes you to Little Stony Point, part of the Hudson Highlands State Park: one of the most beautiful places in the Hudson Valley.

Founded in 1989, the Little Stony Point Citizen's Association is dedicated to keeping this New York State park beautiful and accessible to the public. The LSPCA was the first of now over 30 "Friends" groups that work in association with the New York State Park system to keep beautiful areas like this one open to the public.

Please help us to keep it that way. Please join us by visiting the park any day of the year, and especially on event days. We have "Spring Cleanup days", a Maple Syrup Day in March and our annual musical "Hoot on the Hudson", in early September. The park is open to visitors every day, dawn to dusk.   **Map**

If you would like to volunteer, please email Caretaker John Teagle at Volunteers@LittleStonyPoint.org.
You can make a tax deductible donation in support of the park, by sending your check to:
Little Stony Point Citizen's Association, 3011 Rt. 9D, Cold Spring, NY 10516
Every little bit helps!

Little Stony Point "Cleanup Day" Saturday April 20, 2013
Little Stony Point Citizens Association is hosted its annual Spring Cleanup on Saturday, April 20th. Volunteers moved tons of flotsam from the park, clearing the North Beach of materials that washed ashorethrough the winter. Giant driftwood trees, millions of devilheads and glass, plastics, tires and even a gutted jet ski. Many thanks to those who gave their time, sweat and muscle. Special shout-out to Brooklyn Tech students who joined in by the busload, also enjoying the hiking trails.

Each year, hundreds of volunteer hours are needed to clear little Sandy Beach for summer fun. The arm of Little Stony Point reaches out into the Hudson and traps many an item of debris. If you would like to help out, please also join us on Saturday May 11, 2013 for the annual Riverkeeper Great Hudson River River Sweep. For further info, please email Caretaker John Teagle at Volunteers@LittleStonyPoint.org if you have any questions.

Little Stony Point "2013 Maple Syrup Day": A big success

Little Stony Point Citizen's Association will hosted its 23rd Annual Maple Syrup Day on Sunday, March 24th at the Caretaker's House on Route 9D just north of Cold Spring. We had fresh-off-the-griddle pancakes, hot apple cider and real maple syrup. Free and open to all, as always, featuring live music with a backdrop of the beautiful Hudson River.

Visit the New York Times "Dot Earth" blog that local author, musician and dad Andy Revkin posted. It features a great video clip of Pete Seeger singing the Maple Syrup song.

A stand operated by the Hudson Valley Maple Farm, a program of NY State Parks at the Taconic Outdoor Education Center, had bottles of syrup available for those interested in taking the party home with them. This group has taps throughout the Taconic Region State Parks, including a number of trees in the woods across from Little Stony Point. The pails appeared in February and have provided enough sap to fill the evaporator and more. Remember it takes forty gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup. John Stowell and the group shared their knowledge of the history and methodology of maple syrup making.

2012 "Hoot on the Hudson"

On the Sunday after Labor Day (September 9th) the Little Stony Point Citizens Association will host its annual Hoot on the Hudson, or simply, "the Hoot." Started 17 years ago, past Hoots have featured acts ranging from traditional solo performers to full bands, from classical guitarists to spoken word ranting to show tunes to surf guitars to fifty people on stage singing traditional American folk songs. A solar generator will once again be providing electricity for this off the grid show.

The festival runs from 1pm to 6pm and admission is free for the whole family. Refreshments will be available or bring a picnic. Lawn chairs and umbrellas are recommended items to bring along for those making a day of it. The beach and hiking trails are often mixed in for a full day's fun.

The all volunteer Little Stony Point Citizens Association will be manning an information table offering history and maps of the park, signups for new members and email addresses, as well as accepting donations that are used to help keep this special portion of the Hudson Highlands State Park clean and inviting to the enormous flow of local residents and out of town hikers that use it each year. Little Stony Point is a state owned recreational resource operated through a cooperative management agreement between the Little Stony Point Citizens Association and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

2009 Hoot Poster by Phil Heffernan