Housatonic Valley Association Publishes New Trail Guide
The Valley Greenway Guide of trails
along the Housatonic and Naugatuck rivers in Shelton, Derby, Ansonia and
Stratford is now available in Valley town halls, libraries and community
centers. Copies are also available from the Housatonic Valley
Association (HVA) at 860-672-6678 and online at www.hvatoday.org. HVA
published this full-color, informative guide with the generous support
of Pitney Bowes, Sikorsky and the Valley Community Foundation.
The guide provides an easy reference to the trails, riverwalks, river
overlooks and even an historic trolley route through the valley towns.
Use the guide to walk, bird, skate, fish and cycle in places close to
home. Users can explore miles of riverfront trails and community paths
that connect Shelton, Derby, Ansonia and Stratford to the Naugatuck and
Housatonic Rivers. The guide includes maps and details about the Shelton
Riverwalk, Ansonia Riverwalk, the Bluff Walk, the Derby Greenway,
Sikorsky Estuary Walk as well as trails on Birchbank Mountain, the
Tahmore Trail and the Derby Ansonia Beltline Trail.
“This new guide from HVA is bound to give people an entirely new
impression of the incredible transformation underway in our area in
developing our rivers and trails as recreational resources for our
area,” says Jack Walsh, Executive Director of Valley United Way. “Our
rivers and water courses once fueled our industry and economy, and now
they are taking on a whole new life as recreational and environmental
assets as clearly shown throughout this fantastic new guide.”
HVA, a tri-state nonprofit citizen’s environmental group founded in
1941, works to conserve the natural character and environmental health
of its communities by protecting and restoring the land and waters of
the 2,000-square-mile Housatonic watershed from its source in the
Pittsfield, Massachusetts area to Long Island Sound. HVA has offices in
South Lee, Massachusetts; Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut; and Wassaic, New
York. For more information on HVA, visit
www.hvatoday.org.
Click here for a copy of the guide.
Story posted on May 14, 2014
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