December 11, 2025 • 13 mins
New York State Parks & Historic Sites is celebrating winter with hikes, snow and ice activities, craft & creating activities and more.
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Missy Rentz (00:00):
As we continue to celebrate winter in the parks
today, we are exploring New YorkState Parks.
I'm thrilled to welcome ChrisRicard.
Chris is the park manager atLake Taghkanic State Park.
Chris, welcome to The ParksPodcast.
Chris Rickard (00:15):
Thank you very much for having me.
Missy Rentz (00:17):
When people explore New York Parks and winter, what
kind of different activities,just broadly throughout the
winter, can they expect to see?
Chris Rickard (00:26):
Oh, especially in New York State, we have very
diverse state.
But some of the regular thingsyou would think of just a
regular hike, right?
Going hiking, whether it bearound the lake, a small nature
trail.
We have small hiking loops.
We have really big long loopsto hike around my lake's, about
a five mile hike which you canjust go hiking, there's a lot of
(00:46):
the trails get packed down.
So you can start off with justa set of hiking boots, maybe a
set of gators, and somecrampons, some small micro
spikes in the wintertime.
And obviously then we have allthe other fun activities with
the toys, right?
We have sledding in some of ourparks.
We have snowmobiling, believeit or not.
Even here at my park at LakeTe, Konica Small, it's a good
warmup for if you're gonna gonorth where we have about 10
(01:07):
miles of trails.
So if you wanna get your sledready for the big runs up north.
We obviously have snowshoeing,which is very, you bring your
own snowshoes.
We do have some facilities inthe taco region that do rent,
um, snowshoes or do have guidedsnowshoe hikes.
Like I said, sledding is MillsNorrie State Park on the Hudson
River is probably the primo,sledding, nice safe area to go.
(01:29):
I did it for the first timelast year there and was blown
away.
Reminds me when I grew up inManhattan, so we had some
sledding hills in RiversidePark.
Somehow the Hudson River withthat valley there you get some
really good sledding hills, sosome good hills.
Even these people wouldn'tthink an historic site is a
place to have a blast sledding.
But believe it or not, you havethe gilded age behind you and
you're sliding down the hilltowards the river safely.
(01:51):
So it's really really cool.
Other activities I can thinkof.
One thing too is we do havehunting in some of our parks.
That's a winter activity.
Hunting season just ended formost of New York state.
But we do offer hunting during,in season and we obviously
usually separate a lot of ourpopular areas for hiking.
We separate the hunting to themore backwoods toward more, wild
(02:12):
parts of the park, includingmine.
Missy Rentz (02:14):
And then New York has, more than 250 parks,
recreation areas and historicsites, which that number blew my
mind.
And so that really it justmakes it so that there's a huge
variety of activities.
And as we lead into the holidayseason and then winter,
hardcore winter, what are someof the highlights that visitors
(02:35):
can look forward to?
Chris Rickard (02:36):
So one of the things everyone's gotta check
out is frozen waterfalls, right?
We have something New YorkState has is amazing waterfalls.
Obviously Niagara is the firstone on everyone's list and when
it's iced up it's pretty cool.
But there's Taghkanic Falls outin the center of the state.
We have, a trail close to usthat goes out to bash Bsch
Falls.
It starts in New York and youend up in another state, which
(02:59):
is really cool.
And it's only, it's less than amile hike.
So really cool.
Along this beautiful troutstream through this really
beautiful hemlock valley.
So frozen waterfalls are reallycool kind of destination on
hikes.
That's a lot of people love,like they say, don't go chasing
waterfalls.
Well, hikers love to do that.
Missy Rentz (03:16):
We do
Chris Rickard (03:17):
in wintertime, it really gives a different.
The water's clear because ofthe reflection from just the
snow.
Like you actually look, there'slike blue water.
It's beautiful because of justthe reflections they have.
So it's a totally differenttake on a regular, which you
take a summer hike to awaterfall.
It's a really uniqueexperience.
I'm trying to think of some ofthe other things that mentioning
of just other state parks.
(03:38):
We have, again, we haveFahnestock Winter Park is our
premier cross country skicenter.
It's only about.
An hour and a half from NewYork City.
So when they do finally getsome southern snow in the mid
Hudson Valley there that's whereyou can, it has everything.
You can rent snow shoes, youcan, rent cross country skis
(03:59):
there, both the traditional skisand skate skiing for some
folks.
That's a very European way ofskate skiing because they do a
very professional job ofgrooming their trails.
Missy Rentz (04:09):
Your park is in your region is very active, and
so it's outside activities.
But as I was looking at thecalendar of events for the
holiday season in New York, someof the things I thought were
really interesting is there's astorybook trail in craft outing,
which felt very, for the kids.
So it's like, what a greatactivity to bring your kids to.
There was wreath making and theone that, it took me back to my
(04:32):
childhood was making pine conebird feeders and so I think a
lot of your parks are reallytrying to incorporate the kid in
all of us of all ages to beable to encourage people to come
outside.
And a lot of those are guided,which I think if you are new to
parks, it's really helpful tohave someone guide you, hold
(04:54):
your hand and teach you how dowe use our parks and what parks
are available for us.
Chris Rickard (04:59):
A hundred percent.
Our busy season is the summerhere.
But our neighboring parksTaghkanic State Park, Copake
Falls has a wonderfulinterpreter.
They do almost weekly eventsthere.
Obviously the First Day Hike isgonna be statewide.
There's all different levelsnow because it's gotten so
popular.
It's almost every single statepark offers some sort of guided
(05:21):
hike on that January 1st summerfor the morning for the folks
that didn't stay up all night.
And they do have some that'safternoon for the folks that are
just waking.
But statewide, everywhere fromWalkway over the Hudson, which
is a pedestrian bridge to,again, to Taghkanic State Park,
Copake Falls, which does awaterfall hike, there's rail
trail hikes.
There's small loops that aredone, but all are guided.
(05:42):
And usually the cool things atthe end has some sort of hot
cocoa or warming at the end ofthat.
And it's open to all ages, likethat's a big thing.
Some are dog friendly.
You can check that.
That's important to a lot ofpeople if they're well behaved.
Sometimes we put dogs in socialsettings, don't get along with
everyone, so that's something tomake sure that if your dog is
well behaved, bring it along,but just check with the park
(06:03):
before you go.
But again, I don't know if Imentioned, there's obviously the
Park Explorer app, where a lotof these events can be listed.
We do have an app that's out.
Our website was just recentlyupdated to be much more user
friendly.
That you can use both of those,both the app and the website to
really hone in.
If you want some more details,you go to the website that has
(06:23):
all the listing of the rules andwhat, and, but the, the
Explorer app, it's called theNew York State Parks Explorer
app which automatically, if itknows your location, will list
parks that are near you.
You just quickly click on thepark and they'll actually have
the calendar events that arecoming up for that park.
Missy Rentz (06:39):
And if you go to the episode page on
TheParksPodcast.com, I will linkto all of these sites that
you're mentioning.
Chris Rickard (06:45):
Okay.
Awesome.
Missy Rentz (06:45):
So that people have an easy link.
One of the things I also wannapoint out and, every state park
does this, but I thought it wasreally prominent in New York, is
the guided activities.
You've mentioned a lot of theactivities, but there's also
programs if you want to learnhow to snowshoe, how to bird
watch, how to ice skate, whichis really, it's important to, to
(07:10):
offer those and that's reallyseems to be prevalent and a big
priority in New York state.
Chris Rickard (07:15):
Yeah, very much so.
Rockefeller State Park Preservedown in Westchester County does
they have interpreters thatwill do exactly that.
They do bird walks.
They'll do owl walks, andthey'll actually play calls so
that you can hear, you can callowls, which is a really cool
event.
Animal tracks, right?
That's a really cool, fun thingto learn and that's guided.
They do that Taghkanic StatePark.
They also do that atRockefeller, that I'm aware of
(07:38):
in the region.
And again, the historic sitesas much as we, some people think
history's dry, especially inthe winter with, especially with
the holiday decorations rightnow.
Those interpreters just walkingand seeing how it was to live
back in the thirties and evenbefore that.
We have American revolutionarysites.
John Jay Homestead is a reallycool Philipse Manor Hall just
(08:01):
had a huge renovation done to itand does some amazing
interpretation with all thedifferent storytellings from the
indigenous folks to theenslaved to just really just
well put together.
And there's nothing cooler thancoming into Yonkers, which is a
bustling little metropolis ofits own.
And there's this beautiful,historic site that tells really
the stories of the manner daysback in the time.
(08:24):
And what New York City area, orat least the Tri-State area
looked like back in the.
In the, 17 hundreds, 18hundreds,
Missy Rentz (08:31):
Those have become, it was a surprise to me, but
those historic sites, historicparks, have become one of my
favorite things to discover.
I thought I would be just thenature hiking, camping person,
and it's amazing how our parksand history really do work well
together
Chris Rickard (08:48):
A hundred percent.
And a lot of our parks wereformed by these large, very rich
landowners that ended upultimately.
Passing on those big lands backto the people, which is, a lot
of how New York State parks hasbeen created by just gifts.
Gifts and land sales.
So it's.
We now all get to enjoy whatthose people got to enjoy back
(09:09):
in the day.
Missy Rentz (09:09):
Absolutely.
So we've talked about, broadlyabout New York State parks in
the winter and the holidayseason.
We've talked about First DayHikes, how every state is gonna,
participate.
Let's talk about your park atLake Taghkanic a little bit.
What do you guys have going onthis holiday season in this
winter?
Chris Rickard (09:25):
So right now we, obviously we do have a layer
about, we got about six inchesof snow in the last storm.
Maybe a little more than that.
We sit a little higher.
So right now we are open forjust for regular hiking.
We have a five mile loop aroundthe lake, which is very easy to
follow.
We do have some other backloops.
We have probably about, like Isaid, about 10 miles, 15 miles
(09:48):
of hiking in the park.
We also allow snowmobiling, sowe have some of those back
trails.
You can take the lake loopsnowmobiling.
We don't get busy, so itdoesn't interfere with our
hikers.
Really.
It's, we good.
We maybe get.
I would say a dozen or sosnowmobiles a year here.
So it's a testing ground beforethey go up north.
We don't have enough trails,but it is a place that, that's
(10:08):
just one activity.
If you got a new Christmaspresent and wanted to try it out
snowshoeing this is a greatpark for it.
Like I said, we have those backcountry trails.
Ice skating we don't maintain,but once we get, like right now
how the ice is setting up, aslong as you don't get too much
snowfall, that will smooth oververy nice.
And we have, and then icefishing is huge here.
We have great ice fishing onour lake.
(10:31):
We perch pickerel, large mouthbass is what we have in our
lake.
Last year was probably ourmost, the busiest I've seen
probably 20 years of folkscoming out.
The stuff they sell now, theyhave ice shelters, so it looked
like there's, we had iceshelters all over these throw up
tents all over the ice.
Families out, multiplefamilies.
So we had a group of about fourfamilies, just generations of
(10:51):
folks that were out there.
And it was just great to seebecause again.
With climate change.
Some of the winners have notbeen ideal for that, but it
comes in phases.
We, again, last winter wasreally good for ice fishing.
We had state troopers herepracticing their diving.
They cut these huge blocksoutta the ice and they were
over, almost had almost two feetof ice Wow.
(11:14):
On the lake, which is amazing,which we haven't seen in a long
time.
Pretty cool stuff.
Missy Rentz (11:17):
Yeah, that is really neat.
And I know New York Parks canbe very busy.
I tried to spend more time upthere last summer and I'm a last
minute planner, so it didn'twork out very well for me.
How far in advance can peoplebook reservations at the parks?
Chris Rickard (11:31):
So you can do up to, for cottages and cabins and
campsites, you can do up to ninemonths in advance.
And that is highly recommendedif you want to stay in the parks
during peak season, especiallythe big holidays, which are
obviously kicks off and MemorialDay, July 4th, labor Day, those
are our busiest, Columbus Statefalls in there with that
beautiful fall foliage.
(11:52):
We have people that will sitonline, at midnight, to the nine
months to the day and still notget the reservation because
everyone's clicking the sametime.
But during the week, even inpeak season, there's more
availability.
Missy Rentz (12:07):
You can sometimes get lucky for those short
windows.
Sure.
But it is a good time.
Now, just a reminder to bethinking about your spring,
summer, fall plans.
Yes.
And get things, go ahead andget things booked for New York
State Parks.
Chris Rickard (12:21):
A hundred percent.
Missy Rentz (12:23):
Chris, thank you so much for joining us today.
I love hearing about New YorkState Parks.
I need to get to you, to LakeTaghkanic, to play in your park
sometime soon.
But thank you so much for beingwith us today.
Chris Rickard (12:35):
No problem.
Thank you for having me.
Missy Rentz (12:37):
Happy holidays to you, Chris.
Happy holidays to youlisteners, and until next time,
we'll see you in the parks.
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As we continue to celebrate winter in the parks
today, we are exploring New YorkState Parks.
I'm thrilled to welcome ChrisRicard.
Chris is the park manager atLake Taghkanic State Park.
Chris, welcome to The ParksPodcast.
Chris Rickard (00:15):
Thank you very much for having me.
Missy Rentz (00:17):
When people explore New York Parks and winter, what
kind of different activities,just broadly throughout the
winter, can they expect to see?
Chris Rickard (00:26):
Oh, especially in New York State, we have very
diverse state.
But some of the regular thingsyou would think of just a
regular hike, right?
Going hiking, whether it bearound the lake, a small nature
trail.
We have small hiking loops.
We have really big long loopsto hike around my lake's, about
a five mile hike which you canjust go hiking, there's a lot of
(00:46):
the trails get packed down.
So you can start off with justa set of hiking boots, maybe a
set of gators, and somecrampons, some small micro
spikes in the wintertime.
And obviously then we have allthe other fun activities with
the toys, right?
We have sledding in some of ourparks.
We have snowmobiling, believeit or not.
Even here at my park at LakeTe, Konica Small, it's a good
warmup for if you're gonna gonorth where we have about 10
(01:07):
miles of trails.
So if you wanna get your sledready for the big runs up north.
We obviously have snowshoeing,which is very, you bring your
own snowshoes.
We do have some facilities inthe taco region that do rent,
um, snowshoes or do have guidedsnowshoe hikes.
Like I said, sledding is MillsNorrie State Park on the Hudson
River is probably the primo,sledding, nice safe area to go.
(01:29):
I did it for the first timelast year there and was blown
away.
Reminds me when I grew up inManhattan, so we had some
sledding hills in RiversidePark.
Somehow the Hudson River withthat valley there you get some
really good sledding hills, sosome good hills.
Even these people wouldn'tthink an historic site is a
place to have a blast sledding.
But believe it or not, you havethe gilded age behind you and
you're sliding down the hilltowards the river safely.
(01:51):
So it's really really cool.
Other activities I can thinkof.
One thing too is we do havehunting in some of our parks.
That's a winter activity.
Hunting season just ended formost of New York state.
But we do offer hunting during,in season and we obviously
usually separate a lot of ourpopular areas for hiking.
We separate the hunting to themore backwoods toward more, wild
(02:12):
parts of the park, includingmine.
Missy Rentz (02:14):
And then New York has, more than 250 parks,
recreation areas and historicsites, which that number blew my
mind.
And so that really it justmakes it so that there's a huge
variety of activities.
And as we lead into the holidayseason and then winter,
hardcore winter, what are someof the highlights that visitors
(02:35):
can look forward to?
Chris Rickard (02:36):
So one of the things everyone's gotta check
out is frozen waterfalls, right?
We have something New YorkState has is amazing waterfalls.
Obviously Niagara is the firstone on everyone's list and when
it's iced up it's pretty cool.
But there's Taghkanic Falls outin the center of the state.
We have, a trail close to usthat goes out to bash Bsch
Falls.
It starts in New York and youend up in another state, which
(02:59):
is really cool.
And it's only, it's less than amile hike.
So really cool.
Along this beautiful troutstream through this really
beautiful hemlock valley.
So frozen waterfalls are reallycool kind of destination on
hikes.
That's a lot of people love,like they say, don't go chasing
waterfalls.
Well, hikers love to do that.
Missy Rentz (03:16):
We do
Chris Rickard (03:17):
in wintertime, it really gives a different.
The water's clear because ofthe reflection from just the
snow.
Like you actually look, there'slike blue water.
It's beautiful because of justthe reflections they have.
So it's a totally differenttake on a regular, which you
take a summer hike to awaterfall.
It's a really uniqueexperience.
I'm trying to think of some ofthe other things that mentioning
of just other state parks.
(03:38):
We have, again, we haveFahnestock Winter Park is our
premier cross country skicenter.
It's only about.
An hour and a half from NewYork City.
So when they do finally getsome southern snow in the mid
Hudson Valley there that's whereyou can, it has everything.
You can rent snow shoes, youcan, rent cross country skis
(03:59):
there, both the traditional skisand skate skiing for some
folks.
That's a very European way ofskate skiing because they do a
very professional job ofgrooming their trails.
Missy Rentz (04:09):
Your park is in your region is very active, and
so it's outside activities.
But as I was looking at thecalendar of events for the
holiday season in New York, someof the things I thought were
really interesting is there's astorybook trail in craft outing,
which felt very, for the kids.
So it's like, what a greatactivity to bring your kids to.
There was wreath making and theone that, it took me back to my
(04:32):
childhood was making pine conebird feeders and so I think a
lot of your parks are reallytrying to incorporate the kid in
all of us of all ages to beable to encourage people to come
outside.
And a lot of those are guided,which I think if you are new to
parks, it's really helpful tohave someone guide you, hold
(04:54):
your hand and teach you how dowe use our parks and what parks
are available for us.
Chris Rickard (04:59):
A hundred percent.
Our busy season is the summerhere.
But our neighboring parksTaghkanic State Park, Copake
Falls has a wonderfulinterpreter.
They do almost weekly eventsthere.
Obviously the First Day Hike isgonna be statewide.
There's all different levelsnow because it's gotten so
popular.
It's almost every single statepark offers some sort of guided
(05:21):
hike on that January 1st summerfor the morning for the folks
that didn't stay up all night.
And they do have some that'safternoon for the folks that are
just waking.
But statewide, everywhere fromWalkway over the Hudson, which
is a pedestrian bridge to,again, to Taghkanic State Park,
Copake Falls, which does awaterfall hike, there's rail
trail hikes.
There's small loops that aredone, but all are guided.
(05:42):
And usually the cool things atthe end has some sort of hot
cocoa or warming at the end ofthat.
And it's open to all ages, likethat's a big thing.
Some are dog friendly.
You can check that.
That's important to a lot ofpeople if they're well behaved.
Sometimes we put dogs in socialsettings, don't get along with
everyone, so that's something tomake sure that if your dog is
well behaved, bring it along,but just check with the park
(06:03):
before you go.
But again, I don't know if Imentioned, there's obviously the
Park Explorer app, where a lotof these events can be listed.
We do have an app that's out.
Our website was just recentlyupdated to be much more user
friendly.
That you can use both of those,both the app and the website to
really hone in.
If you want some more details,you go to the website that has
(06:23):
all the listing of the rules andwhat, and, but the, the
Explorer app, it's called theNew York State Parks Explorer
app which automatically, if itknows your location, will list
parks that are near you.
You just quickly click on thepark and they'll actually have
the calendar events that arecoming up for that park.
Missy Rentz (06:39):
And if you go to the episode page on
TheParksPodcast.com, I will linkto all of these sites that
you're mentioning.
Chris Rickard (06:45):
Okay.
Awesome.
Missy Rentz (06:45):
So that people have an easy link.
One of the things I also wannapoint out and, every state park
does this, but I thought it wasreally prominent in New York, is
the guided activities.
You've mentioned a lot of theactivities, but there's also
programs if you want to learnhow to snowshoe, how to bird
watch, how to ice skate, whichis really, it's important to, to
(07:10):
offer those and that's reallyseems to be prevalent and a big
priority in New York state.
Chris Rickard (07:15):
Yeah, very much so.
Rockefeller State Park Preservedown in Westchester County does
they have interpreters thatwill do exactly that.
They do bird walks.
They'll do owl walks, andthey'll actually play calls so
that you can hear, you can callowls, which is a really cool
event.
Animal tracks, right?
That's a really cool, fun thingto learn and that's guided.
They do that Taghkanic StatePark.
They also do that atRockefeller, that I'm aware of
(07:38):
in the region.
And again, the historic sitesas much as we, some people think
history's dry, especially inthe winter with, especially with
the holiday decorations rightnow.
Those interpreters just walkingand seeing how it was to live
back in the thirties and evenbefore that.
We have American revolutionarysites.
John Jay Homestead is a reallycool Philipse Manor Hall just
(08:01):
had a huge renovation done to itand does some amazing
interpretation with all thedifferent storytellings from the
indigenous folks to theenslaved to just really just
well put together.
And there's nothing cooler thancoming into Yonkers, which is a
bustling little metropolis ofits own.
And there's this beautiful,historic site that tells really
the stories of the manner daysback in the time.
(08:24):
And what New York City area, orat least the Tri-State area
looked like back in the.
In the, 17 hundreds, 18hundreds,
Missy Rentz (08:31):
Those have become, it was a surprise to me, but
those historic sites, historicparks, have become one of my
favorite things to discover.
I thought I would be just thenature hiking, camping person,
and it's amazing how our parksand history really do work well
together
Chris Rickard (08:48):
A hundred percent.
And a lot of our parks wereformed by these large, very rich
landowners that ended upultimately.
Passing on those big lands backto the people, which is, a lot
of how New York State parks hasbeen created by just gifts.
Gifts and land sales.
So it's.
We now all get to enjoy whatthose people got to enjoy back
(09:09):
in the day.
Missy Rentz (09:09):
Absolutely.
So we've talked about, broadlyabout New York State parks in
the winter and the holidayseason.
We've talked about First DayHikes, how every state is gonna,
participate.
Let's talk about your park atLake Taghkanic a little bit.
What do you guys have going onthis holiday season in this
winter?
Chris Rickard (09:25):
So right now we, obviously we do have a layer
about, we got about six inchesof snow in the last storm.
Maybe a little more than that.
We sit a little higher.
So right now we are open forjust for regular hiking.
We have a five mile loop aroundthe lake, which is very easy to
follow.
We do have some other backloops.
We have probably about, like Isaid, about 10 miles, 15 miles
(09:48):
of hiking in the park.
We also allow snowmobiling, sowe have some of those back
trails.
You can take the lake loopsnowmobiling.
We don't get busy, so itdoesn't interfere with our
hikers.
Really.
It's, we good.
We maybe get.
I would say a dozen or sosnowmobiles a year here.
So it's a testing ground beforethey go up north.
We don't have enough trails,but it is a place that, that's
(10:08):
just one activity.
If you got a new Christmaspresent and wanted to try it out
snowshoeing this is a greatpark for it.
Like I said, we have those backcountry trails.
Ice skating we don't maintain,but once we get, like right now
how the ice is setting up, aslong as you don't get too much
snowfall, that will smooth oververy nice.
And we have, and then icefishing is huge here.
We have great ice fishing onour lake.
(10:31):
We perch pickerel, large mouthbass is what we have in our
lake.
Last year was probably ourmost, the busiest I've seen
probably 20 years of folkscoming out.
The stuff they sell now, theyhave ice shelters, so it looked
like there's, we had iceshelters all over these throw up
tents all over the ice.
Families out, multiplefamilies.
So we had a group of about fourfamilies, just generations of
(10:51):
folks that were out there.
And it was just great to seebecause again.
With climate change.
Some of the winners have notbeen ideal for that, but it
comes in phases.
We, again, last winter wasreally good for ice fishing.
We had state troopers herepracticing their diving.
They cut these huge blocksoutta the ice and they were
over, almost had almost two feetof ice Wow.
(11:14):
On the lake, which is amazing,which we haven't seen in a long
time.
Pretty cool stuff.
Missy Rentz (11:17):
Yeah, that is really neat.
And I know New York Parks canbe very busy.
I tried to spend more time upthere last summer and I'm a last
minute planner, so it didn'twork out very well for me.
How far in advance can peoplebook reservations at the parks?
Chris Rickard (11:31):
So you can do up to, for cottages and cabins and
campsites, you can do up to ninemonths in advance.
And that is highly recommendedif you want to stay in the parks
during peak season, especiallythe big holidays, which are
obviously kicks off and MemorialDay, July 4th, labor Day, those
are our busiest, Columbus Statefalls in there with that
beautiful fall foliage.
(11:52):
We have people that will sitonline, at midnight, to the nine
months to the day and still notget the reservation because
everyone's clicking the sametime.
But during the week, even inpeak season, there's more
availability.
Missy Rentz (12:07):
You can sometimes get lucky for those short
windows.
Sure.
But it is a good time.
Now, just a reminder to bethinking about your spring,
summer, fall plans.
Yes.
And get things, go ahead andget things booked for New York
State Parks.
Chris Rickard (12:21):
A hundred percent.
Missy Rentz (12:23):
Chris, thank you so much for joining us today.
I love hearing about New YorkState Parks.
I need to get to you, to LakeTaghkanic, to play in your park
sometime soon.
But thank you so much for beingwith us today.
Chris Rickard (12:35):
No problem.
Thank you for having me.
Missy Rentz (12:37):
Happy holidays to you, Chris.
Happy holidays to youlisteners, and until next time,
we'll see you in the parks.
Speaker (12:44):
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