Ulster's Hudson Edge Shows Its Working Past

Ulster’s map reads like a ring around Kingston, with hamlets such as East Kingston, Lake Katrine, Ruby, and Spring Lake. Its Hudson edge gives the town a particularly vivid piece of landscape. Sojourner Truth State Park turns an old working place into public space: brick-making and quarrying remnants, steep cliffs, woods, wetlands, and the paved Hudson River Brickyard Trail.

That gives the town a Hudson story beyond the commercial approach to Kingston. East Kingston is worth reading through that lens: river access, quarry scars, and trail connections all sit in the town story.

The park also gives Ulster a cleaner public doorway into that past. A resident can use the trail for an ordinary walk and still pass through a landscape shaped by bricks, stone, water, and work.

That is a strong fit for a town often understood through its relationship to Kingston. The Hudson River Brickyard Trail lets Ulster stand on its own for a moment, with river industry and public access carrying the story.

The appeal is that the past is still underfoot. A trail walk can carry woods, cliffs, brick-making remnants, and Hudson River air in one ordinary outing.