GORHAM â New Trails Bureau Chief Craig Rennie of the state Department of Natural and Cultural Resources met on Monday evening with select board members Chairman Mike Waddell and Adam White as well as Town Manager Denise Vallee. Vice Chair Judy LeBlanc had said she would not be present.
Rennie was accompanied by District I supervisor Clint Savage of Gorham, who acted as interim chief for seven months after former chief Chris Gamache resigned. Rennie took up his new duties on May 21, after heâd left his post at the Department of Environmental Services Wetlands Bureau.
He met with Waddell earlier that day to discuss how very responsive ATV enthusiasts have been to the new riding routine. As hoped, ATVers have been parking above the black trestle on Route 16 and have not been loading and unloading them on the state-owned parking lot on Route 2.
GORHAM â The state Bureau of Trails is using an excavator to fix drainage and washout issues on the Presidential Rail Trail, starting just west of Jimtown Road.
This stretch of the 18-mile Presidential Rail Trail is also a segment of the Cross NH Adventure Trail (known as the xNHAT), an 83-mile bicycle route through 11 towns from the Maine border to the Vermont border, cobbled together three years ago by an energetic retiree, Marianne Borowski of Glen.
Enthusiastic supporters of Granite State âcycletourismâ have donated money to pay for trail improvements, porta-potty rentals and publishing trail maps.
The Bureau of Trails was authorized at a recent of governor and the Executive Council meeting to accept a $6,400 donation from the Cross NH Adventure Trail to rent an excavator to perform trail maintenance on the Presidential Rail Trail.
GORHAM â ATV traffic on Lancaster Road (Route 2) to the state-owned parking lot on the edge of the Presidential Rail Trail has been reduced substantially, reported select board member Judy LeBlanc at Monday eveningâs biweekly meeting on June 14.
LeBlanc explained that she lives in the
neighborhood in which many residents have complained they are badly affected by ATV enthusiasts off-loading and re-loading their OHRVs and gunning their vehicles as they speed off to reach Jericho Mountain State Park in Berlin.
Noise levels are also far less.
A short stretch of trail alongside the lot up the bridge that replaced the historic pony truss bridge was also paved by the state Trails Bureau, reducing airborne dust.
OSSIPEE — Along with attending the dedication of the new North Conway Fire Station on Saturday, Gov. Chris Sununu made a wide sweep across the North Country last Thursday, starting
BERLIN â Gov. Chris Sununu last Thursday started what he labeled his â#Super603Dayâ with a sunrise ATV tour at Jericho Mountain State Park before continuing an adventure-filled day with a hike into Tuckerman Ravine, an aerial tour of Franconia Notch, a fishing outing on Lake Winnipesaukee, and a final stop at Hampton Beach.
Posting on Facebook throughout the day, Sununu said he was taking his cousin from Massachusetts on the ultimate New Hampshire Road trip. The governor and his crew camped at Jericho State Park Wednesday night in order to get an early start.
Joining the governor for a visit around the campfire Wednesday night were Androscoggin Valley Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Paula Kinney, Ray Bergeron of White Mountain ATV Rental, Clint Savage of N.H. Trails Bureau and Sandy Young of N.H. Parks and Recreation.