Lake Awosting Carriage Road at Minnewaska State Park Preserve in Ulster County, New York Reopens After a $1.3 Million Restoration: 2.6 Miles Repaired Bring Rest
ULSTER COUNTY, New York — The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP), together with the Palisades Interstate Park Commission (PIPC) and the Open Space Institute (OSI), announced the completion and reopening of the Lake Awosting Carriage Road Trail at Minnewaska State Park Preserve. The 17-month, $1.3 million project repaired 2.6 miles of the carriage road along Lake Awosting, supported in part by a $500,000 grant from the State's Environmental Protection Fund (EPF).
According to State Parks, the work widened and resurfaced sections of the road and added new retaining walls and drainage improvements to reduce flooding and erosion, including 8,500 linear feet of ditching, 50 culverts, 6,000 square feet of retaining walls and more than 15,000 tons of road materials, performed by Mombaccus Excavation. With the project complete, visitors can complete a loop hike around the full perimeter of Lake Awosting, the largest sky lake on the northern Shawangunk Ridge. Since 2014, OSI has invested $6.6 million in collaboration with OPRHP and PIPC to renovate Minnewaska's historic carriage road trails, restoring 18 miles to date; the partners' goal is to rehabilitate the park's entire 35-mile Victorian-era carriage road network, and with an additional 10 miles restored by OPRHP and PIPC, the fully rebuilt network stands at nearly 30 miles.
The 24,000-acre Minnewaska State Park Preserve is the state's third-largest park, about 90 minutes from Manhattan, attracting an estimated 700,000 visitors each year. OPRHP Executive Deputy Commissioner Tom Alworth said State Parks is proud to reopen the improved Lake Awosting Carriage Road Trail standing with the Commission and OSI, and OSI President and CEO Erik Kulleseid said the completion illustrates the tangible benefits of the EPF. The 2026-27 New York State Budget maintained the EPF at a record-high $425 million, supplemented by an additional $25 million from the Sustainable Future Program.
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Source: New York State Parks (OPRHP
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Photo: 米尼瓦斯卡州立公园保护区（资料图）。（Wikimedia Commons）|Minnewaska State Park Preserve (file photo). (Wikimedia Commons)
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