NY seeks volunteers to help with increase of hikers at popular trailheads and problems they cause Updated Apr 09, 3:26 PM; Posted Apr 09, 3:00 PM Hikers line up during the early morning hours for a 20-minute wait in the Adirondack LOJ Lodge parking lot before heading off on their excusions for the day. Facebook Share New York is looking for volunteers as one way to help deal with the crush and negative impacts of new and inexperienced hikers on popular trailheads of hiking trails in the Adirondacks and Catskills. Introduced in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2021 State of the State address, the “Adopt-a-Trailhead” program will be managed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. The DEC is currently in the process of identifying those trailheads that will benefit most from the new program.