Hike Reviews
The trail colors in Blue Mt. have been changed many times over the years. They should all be considered unreliable. Trail Conference volunteers reblazed the entire park in about 2002 so that the descriptions in the Day Walker were correct, i.e. corresponded to the county map at the time. At that time the intersections were all given numbers, but many of the posts were just leaned against trees and not installed in the ground because the ground is too rocky. Many of those have since disappeared. More continue to disappear but in a few cases numbers have been painted on trees with the proper numbers.
At the time of publication of Walkable Westchester, we reverified the colors of the trails but it would not surprise me in the least if some of them have been changed since about December 2008. For instance many of the colors in adjoining Depew Park were changed this spring, after publication. The map has been corrected and is available at http://www.nynjtc.org/image/blue-mountaindepew-park-map-0. We have not rechecked Blue Mt since December 2008.
The Trail Conference does not maintain the trails in Blue Mt. They are maintained by the County with some help from the mountain bikers who tend to add spray painted trails frequently.
Walt Daniels