This Year, the Giraffe Path Leads to Your Front Door!

For sixteen years, Hike the Heights has invited residents of Upper Manhattan to hike the Giraffe Path, an urban trail that connects the Cloisters to Central Park. This family-friendly event invites New Yorkers to explore and celebrate the area’s natural treasures by combining physical activity, art, and fun!

This year, due to the PAUSE, Hike the Heights became Heal the Heights, and CAW is offering a therapeutic art project on line! Click HERE to learn how to make a giraffe worry doll. Making art is a great way to practice self care.

Since 2005, Creative Art Works has partnered with City Life Is Moving Bodies (CLIMB) and many other community organizations in making Hike the Heights a success by offering a free art-making project at the Sunken Playground in Edgecombe Park. We are so saddened that this year’s event, originally scheduled for June 6th, has been preempted by the COVID-19 outbreak; however, if our neighbors can’t come to the park to make art, we’re just going to have to bring the art-making to you!

If you’d like to know more about Hike the Heights, click on the link below to download a PDF of The Climb Chronicles, which collects stories about CLIMB, Hike the Heights and Giraffe Path. And please consider supporting the second printing of The Climb Chronicles HERE.