Protect the Highlands is dedicated to protecting the beauty of the Hudson Highlands and our communities by highlighting threats from over-tourism and the proposed Fjord Trail.

Rather than a mega-development that will bring an unmanageable number of visitors and degrade the environment, we propose a modest upland alternative trail that will protect hikers, steward nature, and improve our quality of life.

By enhancing and joining together pre-existing municipal and state park infrastructure, the Upland Alternative could be built in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost of the Fjord Trail. It could be built without subjecting the environment and surrounding community to years of heavy construction. Unlike the Fjord Trail, building the Upland Alternative would not require cutting down acres of trees, building hundreds of new parking spaces, or fragmenting nature. The trail does not have to be built in the river. There is a viable alternative.

Join us to Protect the Highlands!