Russell Dunn, NYS licensed hiking guide, takes you on an incredible journey across New York State's Greater Capital Region, Catskills, and Shawangunks to balanced rocks, perched rocks, mammoth rocks, historic rocks, painted rocks, split rocks, sculpted rocks, rock profiles, talus rocks, potholes, sinkholes, chasms, tectonic caves, shelter caves, ice caves, fissures, faux volcanoes, and geysers-all as hiking destinations of unbelievable beauty and wonder. Rambles to Remarkable Rocks is the perfect go-to resource for individuals and families seeking new and exciting opportunities for outdoor fun and adventure.

Downstate New York Rock Walks is both a hiking guidebook and a history book, calling attention to some of downstate New York's most spectacular and historic rocks: balanced rocks, perched rocks, rock shelters, talus caves, glacial potholes, split rocks, rock profiles, historic rocks, and massive, larger-than-life boulders. Many large glacial erratics have a history going back thousands of years to when they were moved to their present location by advancing glaciers. Many served as points of navigational reference at a time when the landscape was featureless and heavily forested, and still others were ceremonial sites for Native Americans. Rock shelters and talus caves have also been used for thousands of years by Native Americans and Europeans seeking refuge from the elements. It is important that these amazing natural wonders of stone be remembered and recorded before they are lost to collective memory or destroyed by the encroachment of civilization. Providing precise GPS location information along with length and degree of difficulty for each hike, Downstate New York Rock Walks will appeal to casual hikers, serious rock explorers, historians, geologists, and anyone wishing to explore some of nature’s greatest wonders within the reach of the lower Hudson River valley.