Blue links below take you to a map page!  

Parking For the Club!  Five Lots Click

Fee for a hike is only if one Carpools.

December 6 (medium): Mason-Dixon trail hike: This 7.5 mile hike will follow the MDTS along the National Wild and Scenic White Clay Creek in the bi-state Delaware and Pennsylvania Park and Preserve. Meet 7:30 AM at Vo-Tec (York County High School of Technology). or 9 AM at the Pennsylvania Preserve Lot 1 parking area on London Tract Rd. just before the junction of London Tract Rd. with Good Hope Rd. Bring water, lunch and dress as weather dictates. There is a MDTS meeting at 2 PM in the meeting room of the Pennsylvania Preserve in the historic Primitive Baptist Church. Dinner stop optional. Donation of $6.00. Contact Jim Hooper (717) 252-3784 if you have questions.

December 14 (short): Hike Hollowcreek Greenway Trail and surrounding area for about 5 miles. Contact Regina Markle (717) 428-3545 for meeting time and place and details.

December 14 (long): Approximately 10 miles in Michaux State Forest on hiking and multi-use trails. Meet at Adams Electric at 8 AM. Car Pool fee $7.00. The usual boots, water, lunch. All are invited to Creekside Cottage afterwards for hot chocolate and goodies. Hike leader: Pat Yale (717) 495-2839 or . 

December 21 (medium): Caledonia State Park, Quarry Gap circuit hike. This is a moderate 7.1 miles using part of the AT and part park trails, total elevation gain 1200 ft-400 ft in 0.5 miles. Hike along a stream surrounded by rhododendron thickets and hemlocks in Dark Hollow. Meet Adams Electric 8:30 AM. Bring boots, water, lunch, snacks. Option to stop afterward for holiday cheer at the new winery off RT 30. Leader: Gwen Loose (717) 891-9967. Car pool fee: $5.

December 28 (short): Take a brisk, 5 mile hike at Hashawa County Park thru woods, fields, pine groves and along streams. Some steep but short hills and trails may be muddy. We will visit the resident bald eagle and raptors present. Perfect post holiday hike. Bring boots, water, snacks. Meet Adams Electric at noon. Car pool fee $3.00. Leader: Kim Jones or (717) 637-7103.

December 28 (long): No hike leader 

Announcements:

Hike leaders are needed for the following dates in January: 11 (short and long), 18 (short and long), 25 (medium). Please contact Bill Anderson   to lead a hike.

The following people have fulfilled the requirements for membership and will be invited to join the club if there are no objections within ten* days: Jerry & Chris Broome, York, PA 17406.

Reminder, anyone wishing to receive their newsletter by e-mail instead of by postal mail (we have saved postage costs keeping dues down), please forward your e-mail address to Bernie Frick to sign up.

Every Thursday a group meets to do trail work. Contact Jim Hooper for location and time (717)-252-3784.

Phyllis Morley would like to remind all hike leaders to forward the sign-up sheet to her so that all the new hikers will get the correct credit for the 30 miles for membership. If you are a guest and feel you have met your 30 miles, but have not been mentioned in the newsletter please contact Phyllis Morley at (717) 764-6822. 

Any hike leader who has maps (topo, hand drawn, or otherwise) of past hikes they have led are asked to send a copy to Tim Schmidt, president 

    Tim has volunteered to maintain a catalog of hikes to be shared with future hike leaders who are looking for suggestions of where to hike. Thanks!

BE COOL! - Sport a York Hiking Club license plate on your car.  Cost $5.  Contact Tim S. at (717) 235-5940.   and ask for details.  

Please volunteer to lead a hike or two for this year's schedule.

* "If there are no objections within 10 days" refers to things like almost getting a hike kicked out of a park.

A sheet is handed out to all New hikers at the parking lots before the hikes.

Our new place for meetings/events  is inside the York Township Recreation Building, directions as follows:

  From I-83 exit 16, take Queen St (PA-74) south for about 1 mile.  At Campbell Music, turn left onto Oak St.  Drive about a tenth of a mile and stop at the stop sign; do not turn right.  Drive straight ahead past the township building to the small building in the middle of the field.

Parking lot maps

200 W. Market St. MAP!

Vo-Tec (York County High School of Technology)

North End meeting place next to Rutter's Store

Adams Electric

Boscov's East Parking