2019-20 Southern Adirondacks Guide to the First Wilderness Heritage Corridor

The Dean Farm Trails –
With the support of Warren County Department of Planning and
Community Development Director Wayne LaMothe, towns such as
Stony Creek have been able to secure funding to create infrastructure
projects that help promote the Corridor to tourists.
Visitors will find
that Stony Creek has
created a trail system
around the Dean
Homestead Museum at
4 Murray Road. In the
1990’s about 8 acres of
the old Dean farm on
the west side of Murray
Road (creek side) was
bequeathed to the Stony Creek Historical Association to be a museum,
and 217 acres on the east and west side of the road was bequeathed
to the SUNY-ESF Foundation by David and Edyth Haskell. Edyth
Haskell was a direct descendant of Francis J. Dean.
Phase 1 was the establishment of a 1.3 mile ADA compliant trail
around the museum and along the creek. Phase 2, located on the east
side of Murray Road on the SUNY ESF Foundation property are approximately
4 miles of more rugged hiking trails. Phase 1 and 2 are
largely complete with amenities and interest points to be added as time
goes on. It will continue to be a work in progress.
The town has completed a third phase of this project with the
purchase of 8 acres of property at 13 Lanfear Road. This property is
directly across the road from the Dean Homestead Museum. This enables
continuation of the Dean trail system with the intent of a connection
to Creek Center. The property also sits adjacent to the town’s
current park, Green Meadows. The town has added another section of
trail at 13 Lanfear directly across from the Dean Homestead Museum.
This trail makes a loop around the meadow with the intent to connect
to Creek Center. The house at 13 Lanfear will house offices for the
town historian and the Chamber of Commerce. On June 1, 2019 the
Town Historian, Cynthia Cameron, with the help of the Warren County
Historian, Stan Cianfarano, sponsored the 1st Annual “Other Side of
the Creek” history event. The town’s youth planner, Casey Beal, has
created a Community Youth Garden in the back yard and is busily
adding features and plants to the garden. A pedestrian bridge is in the
design phase to connect the Green Meadows park with 13 Lanfear
Road property and Dean Trails.
Discussion and planning on other uses of this property are ongoing,
and include overflow parking for large events such as the annual
Mountain Days Festival, a library/community center that will accommodate
large and small groups of people for a multitude of uses, such as
plays, concerts, arts and crafts workshops, conferences, book signings,
nature programs, creek side water ecology, gardens and greenhouses,
and possibility a museum depicting the town’s history of logging and
tanneries. The goal is to create a destination that attracts visitors to our
area and the First Wilderness Corridor and provides them with activities
to do and things to see. The more people that visit, the more opportunities
expand for businesses to offer services and products, making
for a memorable experience people will want to repeat.
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