Short hike to an expansive view.

There are two ways of getting to the overlook at Fuller Mountain Preserve in Warwick, NY.

There’s the easy, nearly level, 0.9 mile trail (1.8 miles round trip) of uniform scenery—the woods—with an elevation gain of only 162 feet.

And there’s the slightly more challenging but more varied 1.3-mile trail (2.6 miles round trip) that includes a ravine and a stream and with more twists and turns and ups and downs for a total elevation gain of 265 feet.

But you need not pick one trail over the other. Although the two trails—one labeled “green” and the other “orange”—are mostly parallel to one another, where hikers on either trail are occasionally within sight from the other, the two trails join near the endpoints—the trailhead and the overlook—and so can be hiked as a loop. You can take one trail out and the other trail back.

Either path you take, however way you get there, the overlook will offer an expansive view of the valley below from 1,800 feet high, a welcome culmination after just a 20-minute invigorating walk in the woods surrounded by nothing but Nature.