If you liked walking the trail, I hope it inspires you to go out and do something in your community for the environment.
For example, one way you can help is to keep our parks clean. Hemlock Gorge is on the other side of route 9 from this trail. Friends of Hemlock Gorge run a cleanup of the gorge every fall and spring. Go to http://www.hemlockgorge.org to find the date of the next cleanup.
Special thanks to all the volunteers who helped make this trail possible. I couldn't have done it without you.
Melissa
Choosing a site
Melissa choosing places to put new markers
Finding evidence of a previous trail
A previous trail marker
Getting the wood for the posts
Checking out the tools needed
James finishing the edges of the posts
James breaking ground on the first hole
Jeremy working on the first hole
Melissa putting gravel in the hole for drainage
Edna adding gravel
Jeremy pounding nails into the bottoms of the posts
Nails help keep posts from shifting
Caroline pounding nails in a post
while Gabryela and Josi dig a hole
Josi cutting through tree roots
Mike digging the hole for blueberry marker
Amy and Cammie fill in the hole for Maple-leaf viburnum
Steve at Jack-in-the-pulpit
Dan starts the hole for Hemlock
Jeremy digging the last hole
George doing cleanup
Benjamin attaching a temporary sign to a post
Post ready for aluminum sign
Melissa marking placement of sign holes
Melissa drilling holes
Edna drilling holes
Completed post
Ready for the public to use
Gettng Erica's approval on the project
Showing the completed trail to fellow Girl Scouts Gabryela and Devon