WOODRIDGE – A new trailhead is open on the O&W Rail Trail at River Road and Avon Lodge Road near the Neversink River just outside the Village of Woodridge. The trail ends at the gazebo in downtown Woodridge.

With a grant from Sullivan Renaissance, Town of Fallsburg crews cleared and graded the trailhead, laid down wood chips and created a picnic area. Woodridge Renaissance volunteers handled the installation of a new trailhead sign and planter.

The improvement was part of an inter-municipal effort along the O&W Rail Trail that brought together four community groups and the Town of Fallsburg. In addition to the trailhead, work included landscaping at the visitors center in Mountaindale by volunteers from the Mountaindale Action Committee and Sullivan Striders.

New interpretive signs and a trail map were also being developed through the efforts of the Mountaindale Community Development Project.

The trail is one of three segments of the old Ontario & Western Railway right-of-way that are open to the public as a recreational trail. The others include a 2 ½ mile segment from downtown Woodridge to Mountaindale and a separate three mile segment from Hurleyville to South Fallsburg.