# A Halloween hike closes QARAVAN’s 2026 hiking season

Source: https://www.qaravan.org/news/hiking-season-2026/

Oct 24, 2026

# A Halloween hike closes QARAVAN’s 2026 hiking season

On October 24, 2026, 19 people hiked in costume to Feltville, a deserted 19th-century village in New Jersey’s Watchung Reservation. It was the last of QARAVAN’s five hikes this year.

*Halloween hike to Feltville, October 24, 2026*

From June to October, 43 people hiked with us. Two made it to all five hikes, and more than a third came back for more than one.

## Harriman State Park, June 6

16 km from Sloatsburg to Suffern, upstream along Stony Brook and its small waterfalls, with a long lunch at Pine Meadow Lake.

## Greenwood Lake, July 25

13 km along the New York and New Jersey line: up Bearfort Ridge, a picnic at Surprise Lake, then the Appalachian Trail to Prospect Rock and ice cream at Bellvale Farms.

## Bear Mountain, August 15

10 km and 400 m of climbing from Hessian Lake to Perkins Memorial Tower, with lunch at the top.

## Bull Hill, September 19

An 8.5 km loop above the Hudson from Cold Spring, with the hardest climb first and ice cream at Moo Moo’s Creamery at the end.

## The Deserted Village, October 24

9 km in costume through the Watchung Reservation, past streams and Lake Surprise, to the old houses of Feltville, then a picnic together.

*Greenwood Lake hiker, July 2026*

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## About QARAVAN

QARAVAN is a New York nonprofit community of LGBTQ+ immigrants, asylum seekers and allies, founded in 2008. It brings people together, publishes free resource guides in Russian and English, and organizes Brighton Beach Pride.

*A Halloween hike closes QARAVAN’s 2026 hiking season*

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