I’ve camped up at Burnt-Rossman State Forest a couple of dozen times. It’s one of my favorite places to go out truck camping, with it’s remote and quiet nature, and while I had known from maps that there was a lean-to up there, that one could hike to, I had never actually visited it. I had spent the previous night tent camping, and being up early, decided to check out the lean-to.

The lean-to is located on the section of the Long Path that crosses Morey Road, just south of Rossman Hill Road, right next to the old cemetary. Alternatively, you can access the lean-to from Burnt Hill Road, just up the hill from where Duck Pond Road splits off. The lean-to is located about a 1/2 mile from either road. Regardless of which way you choose to go, it’s a nice level hike through marshes and old timber stands.

And old woods roads…

As you past by the headwaters of the Cole Brook, which ultimately helps feed the Schoharie Creek.

And the lean-to is really nice looking and only used occassionally, mostly by the locals.

And it’s nearby a spring, or at least a marshy area that never gets wet.

It’s definately some place I would like to stay some day.

Here is a map: