At the sites in the northern part of the state, players walkalong high bluffs overlooking the Tennessee River or on courses that look like the Scottish Highlands.
They take the elephants off, and they walk them through the Queens Midtown Tunnel underneath the East River, along 34th Street to Madison Square Garden.
The Department of Environmental Conservation will issue an interim access plan within a few weeks that is expected to enable paddlers to walk 0.8 of a mile from the iron bridge just below the Goodnow River confluence along an old logging road to parking, agency officials said.