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