To
feature the vast and varied trails of Wayne County,
Trail Works has partnered with Wegmans and their Passport
to Family Wellness Program as well as with the villages
and towns of Wayne County and the Cornell Cooperative
Extension Service, EWPH (Eat Well Play Hard Coalition
to combat childhood obesity) to produce this program.
The program involves an actual “Passport”
with 16 outdoor trails
mapped out and described around Wayne County. Some
will be village history trails, some will be canal trails
and others will be nature trails for wild flower or
bird watching. Some will be in swamps and bogs while
others will be along the lake shore or up on the Drumlins.
Each trail head will have a unique symbol that you will
trace or rub into your passport book. When completed,
you turn your Passport for drawings and prizes. Passport
redemptions can be made at Cornell Cooperative Extension
in Newark.The program is slated to begin in April 2009.
Included trails are:
1.Bicentennial
Trail (Pultneyville) 2.Black
Brook Trail (Clyde) 3.Canandaigua
Rd.-Dolomite (Walwoth) 4.
Casey
Park Ore Beds (Ontario) 5.Chimney
Bluffs (Huron) 6.
Enlarged Erie Canal Lock 56 (Lyons)
7. Ganargua Creek Meadow Preserve (Macedon)
8.Huckleberry
Swamp (Rose)
9. Kraai Preserve
(Newark) 10.Lockville, (Newark)
11.Montezuma Audubon Trail
(Savannah) 12.Palmyra
Wetlands Nature Trail (Palmyra)
13.Sherburne
Park Nature Trail (Walworth)
14.Sodus-Wallington
Rail Trail (Sodus) 15.
Town
Loop Trail, (Williamson)
16. Village of Lyons- Historic (Lyons)
ATTENTION PASSPORT HIKERS: The
marker at Chimney Bluffs is now in place. The marker
at Black Brook has been moved closer to the brook to
remedy a vandelism problem. Huckleberry Swamp is now
closed for the season and reopens Spring 2010. If you
did not get a chance to get your passport rubbing done,
we will accept your booklet as "full" if the
15 other trails are complete.
Trail Works members hope to use abandoned railroad beds,
such as the Hojack Line and other public corridors to
develop a trail network that connects our communities,
local points of interest and trails in adjacent communites
within Wayne County. Other current Trail Works projects
involve:
Developing a Marion Trail to link to the Erie Canal
Developing an Ontario-Williamson Trail Link
Maintaining the Bicentennial Trail in Williamson
Maintaining the Black Brook section of the Old Erie
Canal Trail
Consulting on the creation of the Dolomite Trail in
Walworth
Designing and installing sinage
Organizing regular hiking and biking trail outing activites
for county residents