Burlington County seeks $6 million grant for new trail connecting Smithville Park to Pemberton Rail Trail Updated: Jul. 02, 2024, 12:52 p.m. | Published: Jul. 02, 2024, 12:45 p.m.

EASTAMPTON — The railroad company is long gone here, but the old track lines are pretty handy for creating nature trails like a new one Burlington County wants to create with $6 million in state ...

The Lamoille Valley Rail Trail was closed before it could open in 2023 by catastrophic flooding, but VTrans is nearing the ...

The trail was stitched together using various roads and paths — including parts of the former Montpelier-Wells River railroad — and signs were first placed from end to end in the mid-2000s ...

The trail runs on a rail line that was completed in 1877 and operated until the 1980s. In the late 1990s, the state asked for proposals about what should be done with the line.

The longest rail trail in New England is open this summer for bike riders, hikers, horseback riders and others. The 93-mile Lamoille Valley Rail Trail was finished in the late spring of 2023. But ...