Join us June 1st for our 1st Saturday Walk & Trolley Ride, & Annual Volunteer Celebration on CT Trails Day

A new adventure to celebrate CT Trails Day! At 10AM, take a walk and free trolley ride, hosted by Shoreline Greenway Trail’s Branford and East Haven Teams and the Shore Line Trolley Museum, then join us for our Annual Volunteer Celebration at the nearby Christ & the Epiphany Church Hall at 12:30PM.  

By 10AM, June 1st, Saturday, gather at the Shore Line Trolley Museum with Shoreline Greenway Trail Town co-chairs, Judy Miller and Chet Blomquist for a brief tour of nearly 100 vintage transit vehicles, then board a trolley for a trip along their scenic track to the Farm River.  We will disembark to walk to the site of our proposed bridge across the Farm River, to link our East Haven and Branford Trail sections. On the ride back to the museum we will visit the remains of an old crushing plant.

Immediately upon your return to the Trolley Museum, join us just 3 blocks away  for our Shoreline Greenway Trail Annual Volunteer Celebration and 11th Annual Meeting at 12:30PM at the  Christ & the Epiphany Church, 39 Park Place, East Haven.  Light refreshments will be served.

 

1st Saturday Spring Hike May 4, 10am – Explore Constitution Park in Madison

An easy Spring ‘walkabout’ for everyone, families welcome.  Madison’s new ‘Constitution Park’ is located on the former Griswold airport site on the banks of the Hammonasset River. Learn about plans to use and preserve this magnificent property as a park, why it is so important, and its role in the ecosystem.  Meet at 10AM at the Park.  DIRECTIONS: I-95 exit 62, follow Hammonasset Connector south to Route 1.  Go left and watch for signs to ‘Constitution Park’, Madison’s newest park, on the right. Parking outside the fence.

1st Saturday Walk April 6, 10am Guilford…

 

Hardy hikers at East River Preserve in Guilford on a rainy 1st Saturday in March 2012

Hardy First Saturday hikers at East River Preserve  last March

. . . . . along the MENUKATUCK TRAIL, EAST RIVER PRESERVE.   We will explore the southernmost section of the Menunkatuck Trail blazed to date, in the East River Preserve. Part of the New England Scenic Trail, the Menunkatuck Trail, when completed, will link Mattabesett Trail in North Guilford to the shoreline at Chittenden Park, intersecting Shoreline Greenway Trail.  2-3 hours.  Meet just before 10 am at the ERP parking area on Sullivan Drive (just before the gate for the Guilford Stump Dump).

 

First Saturday Walk March 2 *CANCELLED* in East Haven due to snow

The Blizzard of 2013 covered our newly finished trail at D.C. Moore School in East Haven with just TOO MUCH SNOW for walking.  (unless you have snowshoes – feel free to explore the trail on your own!).

Blizzard of 2013

Blizzard of 2013

Shoreline Greenway Trail’s East Haven Team is cancelling this walk, but will host the same walk again on one of our future First Saturday Walks in the spring or summer.  Check our website in a couple months for more information.