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We’re looking to do a 3 day 2 night backpacking trip Memorial Day weekend. Last year (thanks to suggestions from this forum), we did Giant Ledge and Panther from Woodland Valley. Again we’re looking for something similar in length and difficulty as Ledge. We have a 5 hour drive so 2 of the...

3 Trips for us... Catskills - Memorial Day weekend. 3 days / 2 nights at Giant Ledge with my son and 2 others. It was our first outing in the Catskills and was a great experience (sans the black flies). Appalachian Trail – End of August. 5 days / 4 nights in Mass - October Mountain, Kay...

Designated campsites are nice but we would be ok finding our own. Sacrificing views to get mileage is a tough call. Actually we don’t need a whole lot of miles. We do need to fill BSA requirements for the Backpacking Merit Badge for my son (16 years old). The requirement that he has...

Mike, we have not yet decided on a destination for the AT. Last year we did a 3 day in CT in the Mt. Lionhead / Riga Lean-to area which was very nice. This year we’d like to do 30-35 miles in 5 days. Again we’re looking to find something with reasonable elevation changes. We may only have...

Sabrina / Mike / YSD... I just wanted to say thanks for the good info. We started at Woodland Valley and headed west. Because of a late start and rain on Friday we only got a few miles in before we decided we should set up camp at the first suitable site. It rained and thundered all night and...

Camping areas Thank you for the suggestions. We have the Catskill Trail Maps from the NY-NJ Trail Conference. In the descriptions for the trails I did not see very much about camping areas or lean-tos in the Woodland Valley area. Our previous hikes were on trails that only allowed camping in...

Hi All, We are looking to do a 3 day 2 night backpacking trip in the Catskills over Memorial Day weekend. We have never hiked in the area and are looking for some suggestions. This will be the first time backpacking for 2 of the 4 of us so we are looking for something fairly easy with not too...