About
A 7.5-Mile Linear Park, Built With the Landscape
Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail, Inc. is creating and stewarding a 7.5-mile linear park that improves visitor safety, expands welcoming access, protects natural resources, and benefits the communities of Beacon, Cold Spring, Philipstown, Fishkill and Nelsonville. The trail is being developed in cooperation with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP).
The vision goes further than recreation: connecting people to the land, the river and one another, in the hope that experiencing this place inspires people to help care for it.
HHFT, Inc. is a nonprofit subsidiary of Scenic Hudson, Inc., formed in 2020 to implement a plan developed with a Steering Committee of nineteen public and nonprofit partners, in partnership with OPRHP. See the Resource Library for governance and planning documents.
Access
The landscape should feel available and welcoming to more people.
Connection
People to landscape. River to Highlands. Beacon to Cold Spring.
Care
Access and stewardship are not opposing ideas.
Orientation
Helping people know where they are and how to experience the place responsibly.
The Fjord Trail Is Taking Shape
See What's Open, What's Underway, and What's Next
Physical + Digital Wayfinding
The Website Becomes Part of the Trail Itself
Every trail section page in this prototype includes a “Scan at the Trailhead” QR code. The idea: future physical signage along the Fjord Trail carries the same code, so a visitor standing at Breakneck Connector can scan a sign and land directly on that location's status, map position and next steps - not a generic homepage. Try it by scanning a code on any trail section page, or visit a link directly, e.g. /go/breakneck-connector. The team can review every drafted link at /go.
About This Prototype
This is a conceptual digital experience prepared as a speculative demonstration of HHFT's future website - not the live hhft.org site, and not a production build. Trail status, alerts, weather, parking figures, events and itinerary logic shown throughout this prototype are representative demo content, not live operational data. Photography is sourced from HHFT's published materials for demonstration purposes; production use requires HHFT's direct confirmation of licensing and credit for each image.
Production discovery would need to confirm: official GIS trail geometry, amenity data, accessibility classifications, parking and shuttle data feeds, weather provider, CMS and CRM configuration (Salesforce, Soapbox, Mailchimp), analytics architecture, and photography rights - among other items outlined in the accompanying proposal.
This build also demonstrates four RFP-specific capabilities at a working (not just described) level: a bilingual English/Spanish toggle available site-wide, in the header, as a pattern for the RFP's multilingual requirement; a structured resource library; an installable, offline-capable app shell (add this site to your home screen, then try it with the network off - previously visited pages stay reachable, full offline map data is a production-phase item); and the physical-to-digital QR wayfinding pattern described above. All four are demo-tier implementations of real RFP requirements, not placeholders.