New trail connecting to Farmington Canal Heritage Trail in Simsbury will be constructed in 2025

After a years-long process, a new multi-use trail connecting the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail to a local park is finally set to be completed by 2026. The town is currently planning for the nearly $2 million construction of an approximately half-mile trail to connect the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail to Curtiss Park along Tariffville Road near the Farmington River. The Farmington Canal Heritage Trail, which runs from the coast in New Haven to the Massachusetts border, is a key portion of Connecticut’s section of the East Coast Greenway, a 3,000-mile walking and biking route spanning Maine to Florida. The town already applied for a grant to initiate design and some of the construction of that alternative route, but a lot of work still had to happen before that could get underway, Kessler said. “That project in itself is complicated, much longer,” he said, adding that it likely had a five to 10 year timeframe.

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