The Hudson River Valley Greenway (HRVG) has released the 2022 Hudson River Valley Greenway Trail Visitation Report. The report includes visitation numbers to fourteen different trail sections on the Hudson River Valley Greenway Trail (HRVG Trail) using automated counters to detect users.
In 2021, HRVG launched a long-term initiative to gather data on the public’s use of the HRVG Trail. HRVG and partner organizations utilize automated trail counters installed for 12-month periods to collect detailed trail visitation data.
This “Year-One” report presents annual trail use data for fourteen locations along the 275-mile HRVG Trail. More than 1.25 million visits were counted across the fourteen sites. Annual visitation averaged 91,000 per site, demonstrating the trail’s widespread popularity. The counts varied widely, from 10,291 visits on the Champlain Canalway Trail in Fort Ann in Washington County to 559,886 at the Walkway Over the Hudson State Park in Poughkeepsie.
The 1,276,496 visits at the 14 specific locations capture only a small fraction of total visitation to the HRVG Trail. HRVG plans to collect data at new locations each year to provide a sufficient number of sample points to develop an estimate of total visitation to the entire 275-mile route.
The full report can be found on HRVG’s website.
Photo of Hudson River Valley Greenway Trail provided.
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