The New England Trail

[percypeaks]

Check this out: www.netrail.org

That's a website put up by a fellow by the name of Paul Gagnon who has been studying and promoting the concept of a trans-New England hiking trail that starts at Long Island Sound on the Atlantic and runs to Mont Megantic's astronomical observatory in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
The trail he envisions has two southern legs, one in Rhode Island and one in Connecticut. Utilizing all existing separate trail systems, he envisions hikers walking from the ocean to the stars.

Trails in his proposed system would be the North-Sound Trail in Rhode Island, various Blue Trails in Connecticut, the Metacomet through Massachusetts to Mt. Monadnock in New Hampshire, the Mondnock-Sunapee Greenway, the Sunapee-Kearsarge-Ragged Greenway, the Route 4 railbed trail, the Cardigan Mountain trail system, a short road walk to Plymouth, the Sandwich Mt. Range trails, numerous trails in the White Mountains, the Cohos Trail, and the Sentiers frontaliers system in Quebec.

If you did the whole thing, you'd by walking something like 800 miles of pathway. Not too shabby.

percypeaks

[MtnMagic]

Yes, 800 miles. 2200 miles. 270 miles, or our 162 miles, we've a better trail.

Yet it is not nearly the fun, the excitement, or the thrill of NH's great unknown. Our Cohos Trail.

The CT. Now with better walking, less tall grasses, wider, more remote, more rugged, definitely wild, and filled to the max w/flora. More fauna. Than you've ever seen.

Anywhere!

[guthook]

I am planning on hiking the Cohos to Connecticut part of this "trail" (trail system is probably the more accurate description) starting next month. If the timing worked out better, I'd head from Connecticut up to Canada, but the earliest I can start is the end of September, so in order to avoid snow in the high peaks I'll hike southbound.

I've always thought it's pretty great how there are so many hiking trails in a small area in New England, and there are enough that connect together that you can put together some interesting backpacking trips.

[hikerfedex]

8-)Hey Bud - Can't wait to start - just a week away!

Heading south on the Cohos to the rest of the NET! Yeeee Hah!!!!

FedEx ;D