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Hike State Parks for New Year’s

Woodbridge, Va. — To get you outdoors this coming New Year’s Day, Leesylvania State Park will offer a free First Day Hike.

It’s part of a national First Day Hikes effort at state parks around the country to offer hikes on New Year’s Day. Leesylvania’s State Park has invited hikers to come to the Lee’s Woods Trail at the park nestled along the Potomac River in Woodbridge. The two-mile hike is described as moderate, and Chief Ranger Sarah Percival encourages hikers to bring water and to wear hiking boots and warm clothes.

Just across the Occoquan Bay in Fairfax County lies Mason Neck State Park, where they will be hiking their one-mile Bay View Trail Head between 10:30 a.m. and noon. The hike is described as easy and appropriate dress and water bottles are also encouraged.

This marks the first time state parks across the U.S. have banded together to offer free hikes on New Year’s Day.   

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