And as the days grow shorter, remember to make yourself visible in the dark if you’re walking or biking. By SHOSHANA HOOSE – Posted October 25 [Ed. note: Be sure to read this entire article – the Eastern Trail is specifically mentioned near the end] You can do two things in the next week and…
By Cathy Genthner – Published in Activity Maine – Connecting You to the Best Maine Adventures since 1984. The 65-mile long Eastern Trail extends from the Piscataqua River in Kittery to Bug Light in South Portland on Casco Bay and includes eight lighthouses along the way. The Eastern Trail (ET) is part of the 3,000…
Opinion – Fosters.com – A service of SeacoastOnline.com – Posted Oct. 14, 2015 A review of great places to go and things to do to enjoy the colorful fall foliage in southern Maine, including on and around the Eastern Trail! Ah, October. That time of year is finally here again. Time to take in the…
We recently got an email from a trail enthusiast in our neighbor state, telling about efforts to build the New Hampshire Seacoast Greenway (NHSG), NH’s segment of the East Coast Greenway (and which connects to the Eastern Trail at the ME/NH border). Read his message below: “We recently set up a Facebook page for the…
Multi-use paths are being added to cities across the country at an exciting rate and more people are using them. That’s a great thing. But crowding can lead to conflict. To stay safe, and make the experience more enjoyable for everyone, here are a few guidelines for blisfully sharing bike paths with fellow cyclists, joggers,…
By LIZ GOTTHELF, Staff WriterA new local initiative, Treetops & Rooftops GIS, is bringing on demand tours of local points of interest. Treetops & Rooftops, an initiative of Saco Bay Center for Civic Engagement and created by volunteers, has developed a pilot program with three audio tours – historical tours of Pepperell Park in Saco…
By LIZ GOTTHELF, Staff Writer OLD ORCHARD BEACH — A nearly completed new spur trail leads pedestrians and bicyclists from the Eastern Trail to Veterans Memorial Park downtown. The Eastern Trail, when fully completed, will provide 65 miles of pedestrian and bicycle trails from Kittery to South Portland along the former Eastern Railroad Corridor. The…
By Marc ChalufourAMC Outdoors, September/October 2015 The ambitious effort to create the East Coast Greenway (ECG)—an uninterrupted network of bike paths, some preexisting and some newly constructed, from Calais, Maine, to Key West, Fla.—began in 1991. Today, the off-road portion is nearly one-third complete, with designated roads connecting the dots. These eight segments highlight the…
SPRINGVALE — A year ago Paul Schumacher and Lee Burnett began brainstorming over a question local business owners repeatedly asked: Could York County have more connecting trails? Schumacher, the director of the Southern Maine Planning and Economic Development Commission, said the requests made sense: Trails help tourism, improve quality of life and increase the value…
Can Trails Make Rails Safer?Annually 500 trespassers are killed in rail corridors.With 142,000 miles of freight corridor, that s an annual fatality rate of One fatality for every 300 miles of rail corridor.Not even one fatality has been recorded during the 40-year history of rails-with-trails for a pessimistically estimated annual fatality rate of One fatality…
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