OSI completes 20th acquisition in Southern Gunks

MAMAKATING – The Open Space Institute has purchased 88 acres of undeveloped forestland in far eastern Sullivan County. The $200,000 acquisition along the southern Shawangunk Ridge expands public access for hiking, camping and hunting. The land, adjacent to the Roosa Gap State Forest, is the latest addition to the list of state forests and parkland that OSI has created or expanded in the Mid-Hudson region and Shawangunk Ridge.
The property buffers the Long Path and opens the possibility of a new trailhead to the 347-mile long-distance hiking trail beginning at the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, New Jersey and ending in Altamont in the Albany area.
The land marks OSI’s 20th acquisition in the area of the Shawangunk Ridge, Roosa Gap and Wurtsboro Ridge state forests and adds to OSI-preserved land totaling over 5,400 acres.