Walk the Land: The Geological History of Burger Hill

Explore! The Geological History of Burger Hill

Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025

Location: Rhinebeck, NY

Drayton Park at Burger Hill in Rhinebeck is an ideal year-round hiking spot. In warm weather the majority of its 76 acres are milkweed-filled grasslands rife with butterflies and rarely seen (in NY state) birds like bobolinks. At the top of the 550-foot hill, the 360-degree views are stunning and uninterrupted, the Catskills seeming an arm-length away. Geologist Bob Titus invites you to imagine what the site and scenes were like millennia ago, when the Hudson Valley Glacier was receding, carving the landscape and depositing debris in its wake. How did the hill come to be? Join us for a walk and talk with Bob at Burger Hill, a Winnakee Land Trust property, as he takes us back in time and conjures the Drayton Hill Park of long, long ago
Bob will have copies of his books, co-written with his wife, Johanna Titus, on hand for purchase, including the most recent, The Hudson Valley in the Ice Age, A Geographical History and Tour (Black Dome Press, $17.95).

This event is part of the Walk the Land series, a partnership with Winnakee Land Trust and Dirty Gaia.

Robert Titus, aka The Catskill Geologist, has a PhD in Geology from Boston University and is co-author with his wife, Johanna Titus, of several books, including The Hudson Valley in the Ice Age, A Geographical History and Tour; The Catskills in the Ice Age and The Hudson River Schools of Art and their Ice Age Origins. Bob and Joanna's writing can also be found at thecatskillgeologist.com.This is a ticketed event. Suggested donation, $10 per person, $25 per family.

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