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.
Gorgeous maples shade the head of the marsh.
Canopus Creek flows through a beautiful rugged ravine in the southwest. Much of the remaining portion of the Park is rolling country covered with second-growth hardwood forests and a few old hemlock groves. Spiraea alba var.