2018 Shawangunk Ridge Trail Run/Hike { 122 images } Created 19 Sep 2018
The 2018 Shawangunk Ridge Trail (SRT) Run/Hike was held on Sept. 14-15, 2018. Runners competed in unsupported races of 70, 50, 30, and 13.1 miles. The Shawangunk Ridge Trail (SRT) is a 70-mile hiking trail that traverses the entire length of the Shawangunk ridgeline, from High Point State Park in New Jersey, where the SRT intersects the Appalachian Trail, all the way to the town of Rosendale, New York, where the trail ends just beyond a restored railroad trestle high above the Rondout Creek. Along the way, the SRT passes through rolling hills covered in hardwood forests, Southern New York’s largest wetlands, rare dwarf pine barrens, sky lakes, waterfalls, and the distinctive white quartzite conglomerate cliffs of the Shawangunk mountains, which were uplifted almost three hundred million years ago.