HUDSON RIVER SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREA aka Buttermilk, & the BEAR SLIDES hiking, camping, biking.
The good: no cell service, lookouts to bushwhack to, free primitive camping. The bad: people who don't appreciate nature (best to visit Mon-Thu before Memorial & after Labor Day weekends if you prefer tranquility & being one with nature). May 21, 2023 - NUMBER SEVEN & HUCKLEBERRY MOUNTAINS hike from the end of Alden Ave, SW of Warrensburg. A relatively recent addition to the Forest Preserve with no marked trails but lots of old logging roads makes for fairly easy access to this area. Started by going past a gate & soon made a L on a lesser dirt road (going straight on the better dirt road soon leads to private land - guess how I know). The old logging road is quite obvious for at least 1.5 miles. A beaver pond is on the L - saw ducks & geese. Further on, beaver have flooded the route at one point but the beaver dam was walkable. Lots of bluets & violets (bigger violet ones & small white ones). Headed N on an old skid road then steeply up open woods to