Herkimer House Hike

Yesterday Randy and I joined a local hiking club at lock 17 in Little Falls for a hike along part of the Canal Trail. We went about 1.5 miles to Herkimer House, an historic house of General Herkimer of the Revolutionary War, Battle of Oriskany. The house had a reenactment going with colonial era maple syrup making and the house and other buildings were open to tour through. The place had the best cold cellar I've ever seen. Apparently it was used during Herkimer's time as a fortified location against Indians or British. The Canal Trail seems to be a great, little known, resource. The total planned length is 500 miles along the Mohawk River starting in Cohoes and going west. There are still big sections that are in the proposed phase but with things like the Herkimer House along the way, what a great hike that would be. Lots of people were out yesterday with little kids, dogs and we even saw a pheasant that came within a few feet of us. I even got a little sunburnt.