Odelltown, an entire community, flourished on Canopus Creek at the foot of Sunken Mine Mountain. A railroad on site transported the ore to NY 301 where horse and wagon carted it to the foundry at Cold Spring and then by barge to New York City. In 1691 Adolphe Philipse purchased the land. It has many miles of trails that will take you far from the crowds. There is a figure-eight walk that loops around its southern hills and ridges.
Blue trail leads to deep forest of tremendously tall hemlock.
Tailings of an abandoned mine on your right. These mines provided ore to the West Point Foundry at Cold Spring. This was turned into the Parrot guns of the Union Army artillery. You turn right past fields of hay-scented fern and down to a charming little brook. Manmade pond filled with stumps.