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For what it's worth, there's a super popular hiking spot 1.5 hours outside of NYC called Breakneck Ridge that is only served by a few MetroNorth trains per day
by CydeWeys 7y ago
For what it's worth, there's a super popular hiking spot 1.5 hours outside of NYC called Breakneck Ridge that is only served by a few MetroNorth trains per day (and only on weekends and holidays). And yet when I went there were MANY people doing it. That trailhead is close to the train station which is why it's so popular, but if it weren't, there's always Lyft/Uber.
These are city-dwellers who don't own cars doing these hikes, so "driving your own car" isn't even an option. Renting a car for the day/weekend is, but that's much more expensive than round-trip train tickets.
- badfrog 7y agoYeah, it's great that these options exist. I've taken Metro North to hike on Mount Beacon before. But I still wouldn't say it's more convenient than a car.
- CydeWeys 7y agoIt's not more convenient than a car that one day of the month, but not having a car is definitely more convenient the other 30 days of the month. Owning a car in NYC is super inconvenient and expensive. Although I will say, the drive isn't that much faster than the train ride. And driving is dead time, whereas train riding time isn't.