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Contact: Rebekah Oakes, 518-758-9689 x 2008
National Park to Co-Host Kinderhook Dutch Farming Heritage Trail Run
KINDERHOOK, NEW YORK – Lace up your fastest shoes and run the farm on Saturday, September 28!
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site is happy to partner with the Kinderhook Runners Club to sponsor a free four-mile scenic trail run on September 28, 2019. The run will begin and end at Lindenwald, Martin Van Buren’s home. Traversing three centuries of Dutch farming, the course takes runners over Roxbury Farm and the Luykas Van Alen House
Check in begins in front of Lindenwald at 8 am, with the run starting at 9 am. The first 100 runners to check in will receive a complimentary T-shirt. The Friends of Lindenwald will provide water and fruit to all runners.
To register for the race, please sign up on-line at www.kinderhookrunnsersclub.com by Friday, September 27. Registration is free, but limited to 250 participants, and there is no race day registration.
Starting in front of Lindenwald, the course loops down Old Post Road, across a small stream, and through Roxbury Farm, a community supported biodynamic farm. Runners then circle the Van Alen House, conserved by the Columbia County Historical Society. The run concludes on the Wayside Loop Trail on Van Buren’s farm, where the ex-President spent the last and happiest days of his life.
For more information, call Martin Van Buren National Historic Site at 518-758-9689.
Last updated: September 13, 2019