Happy trails — and trail workers — restoring town trail
In late October, trails committee members and other volunteers repaired damage to the Town Link Trail caused by the July storms.
That flooding washed away large sections of trail near the Route 7 underpass and caused deep ruts elsewhere along the path. The trails committee was helped by Charlotte volunteers, including an unsolicited donation for the repairs by Alexandra Lehmann, work by Eric Richardson and his tractor, help from Tom Hengelsberg and loads of replacement gravel supplied by road commissioner Junior Lewis.
The trail committee also completed its annual trimming of overgrowth along the Town Link Trail and painted new navigation blazes on the Plouffe Lane Trail. Users of the Pease Mountain Trail will see new tree identification signs, raising to 22 the number of species identified there. Brandon Benedict, the new Chittenden County Forester, helped with the tree identification work.
Jack Pilla constructed a wooden walkway over a drainage on the Village Loop Trail near Greenbush Road.
Much of the wood Pilla used came from the trails committee’s recent Ferry Road bridge project that he completed in September on the mowed path along Ferry Road west of Greenbush Road. The bridge there also replaced a bridge damaged by flooding. See more.
(Bill Regan is a member of the Charlotte Trails Committee and The Charlotte News board of directors.)