Torrey, the New York Post 's influential hiking columnist, had gotten the name for his column, it was a smart public relations choice. He named his idea the Long Path after Walt Whitman's line about "the long brown path that leads wherever I choose" from his poem " Song of the Open Road". and each found site would be an adventure in orienteering. There would be no cutting or blazing, for this trail would be a truly wild walk that wouldn't erode the land or scar the solitude . He wrote to an official at Harriman that: route that a person having good "woods" sense could use to move across a region using compass and "topo" map, and that in a meandering way would lead such persons to most of the interesting scenic vistas, rock formations, choice or unique vegetation, historical sites and similar items that a certain type of outdoors person enjoys. "Schaefer envisioned resourceful hikers making use of what they found along the way," say historians Guy and Laura Waterman - whether hikers' trails, back roads, abandoned wood roads, tow paths, creek beds, game trails, plus occasional bushwhacks where that appeared to offer the most interesting route." They quote him describing the Long Path as: He was very clear on one thing: that it not be marked as a trail. Vincent Joseph Schaefer, a scientist who worked in Schenectady for General Electric, began to imagine a "hiker's route" from New York City to the Adirondacks shortly after helping to found the Mohawk Valley Hiking Club in 1929. Plans call for it to be extended through the Adirondacks to the Canada–US border. However, increasing development after World War II in Orange and Rockland counties made that less workable, and it was revived in the 1960s as a standard trail. When conceived in the 1930s, it was to be the antithesis of a hiking trail, with neither a designated route nor blazes, simply a list of points of interest hikers could find their own routes to. New Jersey Palisades, Harriman State Park, Schunemunk Mountain, Shawangunk Ridge, Catskill Mountains, Vroman's Nose Long Path mileage sign in Palisades Interstate Parkġ75th Street subway station, New York, NY
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