WATERVILLE The Friends of Quarry Road recently received $712,500 in federal funding for improvements at Waterville’s largest public park, Quarry Road Trails. Funding is part of $2.85 million awarded in a partnership between the Northern Border Regional Commission and U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development for 11 economic development projects in Maine, New Hampshire, […]
And, best of all: universal accessibility.
If you use a wheelchair or a cane or need crutches or walking braces to get around, this trail has been blazed for you. It’s wide, level and hard-packed for your ease and comfort.
“It’s a jewel,” said Gordon Collins, the vice president of Friends of Hope Cemetery & Woods.
The Friends of Hope Cemetery & Woods are expected to celebrate the official opening of the new, accessible trail with a snip of the ol’ ribbon by the Kennebunk-Kennebunkport-Arundel Chamber of Commerce on Friday, May 14.
The woods tucked behind Hope Cemetery on Barnard Lane in downtown Kennebunk comprise 72 acres of forest and meadows and offer nature trails that are open to the public all year long.