Otsego Land Trust protects healthy lands and clean waters by working with private landowners to conserve land into perpetuity and by acquiring lands through donations and grants that we can open to the public.
We understand a simple truth: when people connect with the land and water, they will care for them more deeply and be more responsible for assuring that they are protected now and for future generations.
OLT’s program of land acquisition is focused on the specific goal of encouraging meaningful connection to land and water through providing public access to special places. Our Blueway project accomplishes this goal.
Otsego Land Trust Blueway is a series of OLT owned and protected places that provide fishing, hiking, paddling, bird watching, and educational opportunities from Canadarago Lake to the Susquehanna River, including Brookwood Point on Otsego Lake.
Visit the following conservation areas along the Blueway Trail:
OLT’s conservation areas along the Blueway are free and open for your outdoor recreational and educational enjoyment. You can hike, bird watch, paddle, fish, or just relax and enjoy the peace of nature around you. Please, always strive to have as little impact on the land as possible. Practice “Leave No Trace” principles and be respectful of the land, native plants and animals, and other people.
The Blueway Project was supported with funding from the New York State Conservation Partnership Program and New York’s Environmental Protection Fund (EPF). The New York State Conservation Partnership Program is administered by the Land Trust Alliance, in coordination with the State Department of Environmental Conservation.  Funding was also provided by the Canadarago Lake Improvement Association, the Royal Bank of Canada, the Chesapeake Conservancy, the Department of Environmental Conservation, The Nature Conservancy, and the Upper Susquehanna Coalition.
Otsego Outdoors is a collaborative project of the Otsego Land Trust, Otsego 2000 and the Otsego County Conservation Association.
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