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The Shawangunk Ridge Trail provides a hiking opportunity that runs for 35-miles along the length of the ridge from High Point to Minnewaska.

At High Point, it joins the world's longest linear park and greenway, the 2150-mile Appalachian Trail, which runs from Springer Mountain, Georgia to Mount Katadin in Maine.

The Long Path, a 300-mile trail from New York City through the Catskills to north of Thatcher State Park near Albany, also joins the Shawangunk Ridge Trail at the Wurtsboro Ridge Forest Preserve.

The Shawangunk Ridge Trail is considered part of the Long Path trail system because of the loop it forms starting from the Long Path - Appalachian Trail junction in Harriman State Park. It is managed as part of the Long Path.