The Ramble returns to Rensselaerville
— Photo from Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve
The Rensselaerville Ramble encourages runners of any age.
RENSSELAERVILLE — The Rensselaerville Ramble will return this September.
The popular trail run and walk, which used to be held in June, has been on hiatus since 2019. The event, which takes walkers and runners along trails at the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve, has been moved to Sept. 20 to reduce impacts to plants and animals, organizers say, while increasing the chance of cooler and drier weather.
As before, proceeds will go to two not-for-profit organizations in town — the Huyck Preserve itself and the Rensselaerville Library, founded in 1896. New this year, registrants have the option to raise additional online funds for the important community nonprofits.
The 2025 Ramble offers routes of two, five, or eight miles that can be followed for fun or as a race for medals.
“All routes depart from scenic Lincoln Pond and take ramblers through the Huyck Preserve’s old fields, mixed deciduous forests, and planted conifer forests where they will see signs of times past including historic stone walls and an abandoned horse race track last used in the mid-20th century,” says an announcement from the Huyck Preserve. “Longer routes take participants further into the preserve’s more remote and beautiful forests.”
To learn more about the Ramble or to sign up to race, volunteer, or sponsor, visit the Ramble webpage on the Huyck Preserve’s website: bit.ly/4mhY9ok. An entry fee is $45 now and $50 after Sept. 1.
— Melissa Hale-Spencer
