Celebrate Trails Day

Save the date for Celebrate Trails Day on Saturday, April 27th! We hope you will join ESLC and our trail partners and advocates from all across the Eastern Shore in celebrating our amazing trails this spring. First started by the in 2013, Celebrate Trails Day is more than a day outside—it’s an opportunity to enjoy your local trails while appreciating the many ways that trails make an impact on our lives and communities. It’s an opportunity to show how beneficial our current trails are and why we need more trails, longer trails, and trails that better connect diverse destinations.

On Saturday April 27th, the Eastern Shore Trail Network Steering Committee will lead various trail walks at locations across the Shore, including Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge and the Town of Oxford. Steering Committee Chair and ESLC Land Use and Policy Director, Owen Bailey, will lead the walk along Chestertown’s Gilchrest Rail Trail, a scenic path that curves past the Chester River dockyard, a historic farm supply warehouse, vintage rail lines, and picturesque Washington College.

To learn more about Celebrate Trails Day visit Rails-to-Trails Conservancy: railstotrails.org/celebratetrails. 
To learn more about the work being done to advocate for more trails on the Eastern Shore visit our Trail Vision: https://www.eslc.org/towns/eastern-shore-regional-trail-vision/
We also have a great new trail map developed by the Eastern Shore Regional GIS Cooperative with support from the Rural Maryland Council: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/413da86ab8f94d8e801ca66df4787a1f
Register for your local Celebrate Trails Day event below.

Join Us At One Of These Locations!

Oxford Connector Trails

Meeting spot is the parking lot opposite Pope’s Tavern
2 pm
Led by Cameron Mactavish, Board President of Talbot Thrive
Learn more about Talbot Thrive: https://talbotthrive.org/

Gilchrest Rail Trail (Chestertown)

Meeting spot is AJAX Park off Cannon Street
11 am
Led by Owen Bailey, ESLC Director of Land Use and Policy, and Jim Bogden, Chair of Chestertown Parks and Recreation Committee
Learn more about the Gilchrest Rail Trail: https://townofchestertown.com/residents-3/parks-and-trails/

Cypress Branch State Park (Millington)

Meeting spot is at the park’s main entrance
3 pm
Led by Owen Bailey
Learn more about Cypress Branch State Park: https://dnr.maryland.gov/publiclands/Pages/eastern/cypressbranch.aspx

Summerfields Trail (Snow Hill)

Meeting spot is at the Lower Shore Land Trust office on 100 River Street in Snow Hill
Event begins at 9:30 am
Led by Laura Scharle, Founder of Delmarva Trails and Waterways
Attendees are encouraged to explore the trails
Learn more about Worcester County Bike and Pedestrian Coalition: https://www.facebook.com/WoCoBikePed/

Blackwater Wildlife Refuge (Cambridge)

Meeting spot is the Key Wallace Trail
Event begins at 9:30 am
Led by Joe Kelley from Choptank Heritage Trail

413 Rail to Trail (Crisfield)

Check back soon for more details.

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