The New England Trail, our newest National Scenic Trail, is officially designated. You may have seen some signs already. I know there is a sign at the base of The Bluff. Now, the question is: Is it over before it even got started? The New England Trail is planned to run from the Guilford shore to the MA/NH border, and all of the trail has been mapped. Please see two important upcoming events HERE The first is an upcoming “work party” to assemble trail signs for the new trail which encompasses the Metacomet, Mattabessett, and Menunkatuck Trails on July 18th. WOOHOO! The second is sad news that a 3.5 mile stretch of the trail may be lost due to a “wrongful injury” lawsuit regarding an injury that took place on PUBLIC LANDS. That’s right, the trails may be closed on land that the PUBLIC owns! BOOHOO. There are petitions that can be signed, and a public hearing that will take place on July 20th. By the way, this is the very same trail that any Bimbler wishing to hike, run, or race from Long Island Sound to Massachusetts would use. If you care about preserving and enhancing our opportunities to recreate on OUR property that WE own, I would urge you to participate in either or both of these events.
Gretchen and I have both signed the petition and encourage everyone elso to do the same. Its very easy to do. We will be up in Vermont on the work party date. Hopefully done by then.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/fixtherecreationliabilitylaw