30. Plotter Kill Preserve: Coplon Road 🥾🦖

26 Aug, 2026

Coplon Road entrance, Rotterdam, NY 12306

Brief excursion 🥾 starting at emergency marker #12, then to #11, then around a spur trail loop 🟡, then back to #12, then to #13, then back to #12 and to the trailhead 🗺️📍.  A short, easy, exploratory route 🔀.  The trailhead is picturesque 📸.

Almy D. Coggeshall (1917–2009) 👨‍🔬 was a chemical engineer and a highly influential environmental conservationist based in Schenectady.  He was instrumental in opening this 632-acre reserve with its rugged trails, gorge, streams, and waterfalls to the public in 1977, and the county legislature officially renamed it in his honor in 1990.  FYI ℹ️

15 pics:
 1 - trailhead 📍 

 2 - wildflower meadow, treeline, distant hills 📸 

 3 - good idea 💡✅ 

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 5 - birch tree 

 6 - power lines⚡ 

 7 - stream running dry 🏜️ 

 8 

 9 - spur trail 🟡 

 10 - hollow tree cavity 🪵🕳️ 

 11 

 12 

 13 - exiting... 

 14 - C = to Coplon Road trailhead 

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