Dirty Thursdays April 12 & 19

Thanks to volunteers for giving 31 hours of work the past two Thursdays, a re-route on the Cannonball is blazed and open for riding and hiking. If this trail is on your agenda, please check it out in both directions. Blueberry bushes are budding and things are really turning green out there.


This section is blazed in cooperation with the NYNJTC trail marking system. It is a connector to the main bike route (red) between Ringwood State Park and Ramapo State Forest.


New trail crossing the old fall line trail.





Thanks to:
Connie Farley
Bryan Carbone
James Bazzano
Henry Gozdz
Dennis Efinov
Mike Zusman
JD Dodd
James Wilbur

Art and Ellen

April 5 and 7 Trail Work

With all this wonderful weather, trail building progress has been outstanding! That being said, we really need rain as the ground is tinder dry very deep down. This is not typical for this time of year and forest fire danger is extremely high right now. Even if you do not see fire, if you see or smell smoke, please report it to the park (Ringwwod State Park (973)962-2240) or Forest fire service.



Thursday five volunteers finished up the next re-route on the Ringwood-Ramapo trail and are poised to start the next section. We will take a few week break on this trail and move to the Cannonball Trail for the next few Thursdays.

Today seven volunteers helped clear and bench cut several traversing turns on the Cannonball trail just north of the DPW site. The existing trail went straight down the fall line and had become nearly twenty feet wide. The new trail traverses the same hill. We plan to finnish this project on the next few Thursdays.


old fall line trail


new traversing trail

A lot got done done this past week. A big Thanks to our volunteers for 47 hours of work:
Henry Gozdz
James Wilbur
Tom Stanowski
Rich Gorman
Blair Stearns
Gail Dickard
Eric Ackerson

- Art and Ellen White