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.

 

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

April 4 Saturday SHORT HIKE: sponsored by York County Parks, will travel from Wrightsville to Highpoint Scenic Area. A SPECIAL Saturday outing, 4 miles along the Mason Dixon Trail with the Director of PA Parks and Forest Foundation and Naturalist Marci Mowery, will focus on the particular nature and history of this area. This is a moderate, hilly, hike thru riparian woodland, to a panoramic view of the Susquehanna River. Bring sturdy shoes or boots, water and snacks. This hike starts at 9:00 AM, at the river access area on South Front Street, in Wrightsville. Please pre-register by calling York County Parks 428-1961. Or sign-up and carpool with the York Hiking Club at 8:30 AM in the Boscov's East Parking of the Galleria Mall, near the Road House Restaurant. Carpool donation $1. For hike information call Skip Newcomer (717) 285-0146.

April 5 - MEDIUM HIKE: This scenic 5 mile hike starts at Wrightsville boat launch and ends at Moon Dancer Winery parking lot. We will have moderate elevation going through Murphy’s Hollow, Grace Plateau, and on to High Point, where you have a 360-degree view of the river and surrounding hills. Julie will be preparing snacks to eat at the winery after we finish the hike. Please bring water, snacks and wear good walking shoes/boots. Car pool fee $1.50. Meet at Boscov's East Parking lot (near Texas Road House) off PA 24 at 12:30 pm. Hike leaders: Bob and Julie Falsetti (717) 854-3437.

April 5 LONG HIKE: Approximately 8.5 miles on Tuscarora Trail to Flat Rock and returning through Colonel Denning Park trails. There are 2 long climbs and some rocky terrain, and two stream crossings that won't get you wet unless we have wet weather before this hike. Meet at the North End meeting place next to Rutter's Store at 8 a.m. Bring good hiking boots, water and lunch. Car fee $6. Hike Leaders: Tom and Phyllis Morley (717) 764-6822. 

April 12 HAPPY EASTER: No hike

April 19 Wild Flower Hike & Dinner at the JPJ: Join John Seville at 10:00 AM at JPJ. John will take us along the Susquehanna to enjoy the spring flowers and then onward for a five mile hike. At 1:30 PM we will get together at JPJ for a lasagna dinner and good company. Please call Mary Phipps at 818-8035 by Tuesday, April 14 for meal reservations. 

April 24 -26 KTA WEEKEND

April 25 SATURDAY - SHORT HIKE: Five mile hike on Pickett Road and other country roads in the Dover area. Meet at  Adams Electric at 10:00 am. Bring water and a snack. Carpool fee $1.00. Hike leader: Frank Phipps (717) 818-8035.

April 26 - MEDIUM HIKE: This hike is for the ambitious afternoon hiker. From Rt. 82, we walk a mile along a country lane by a quiet brook to a covered bridge and seven glorious, arduous miles of hills. A number of us intend to have dinner out after the hike. 12:00 noon at Boscov's East Parking. Carpool fee: $0.75 plus $7.00 CTDTOE Leaders: Lore & Al Britton, 717-741-0624, ,

TUESDAY, April 28 Board of Directors meeting 7:00 at Jim and Joyce Hooper's House. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

Hike leaders needed for May: 10th short and long AT; 15th medium; 24-25th Memorial Day Weekend at JPJ(cook & hike leader) ;31st short and long. Contact: Eric Ling . 

We welcome into membership: Christine and Jerry Broome, Hellam, PA, Kim Pavlick, York, PA and Darla Stover, Dallastown, PA. And also a welcome back to Sara Senft who is living in Crossville Tennessee and has re-joined our group. 

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*: Karen Spino and Kevin Moser - Hummelstown, PA

Message to hike leaders: Thank you for sending your logs. Just a reminder, to keep track of how many hikers we have on each hike (members and guest), contact Phyllis Morley following the hike. If the hike is cancelled, still let her know. You can give her this information by email at , phone 764-6822 or snail mail a copy of the sign-in sheet to 2640 Wexford Lane, York, PA 17404 -anyway will do!!!

HOOPER AWAY WEEKEND: May 1-3 Thunder Swamp weekend
Hike on the Thunder Swamp trail and stay in a motel in East Stroudsburg. Contact Jim Hooper ( ) ASAP if you plan to go.

Thursday Work Trips: Come join the group that does trail work, usually on the MDT. Call Jim Hooper at (717) 252-3784 for time and place. 

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.

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