Posted in Buffalo, Rail-trail, Trail Building, Western NY, tagged new york, ny, allegany state park, parks & trails new york, cattaraugus county, Erie County, Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad, Western New York Snowmobile Club, McGee Trail, Niagara Greenway on July 11, 2008 | No Comments »
By Elmer Ploetz, link to original Buffalo news article
Proponents of turning the Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad line into a multiuse trail through Orchard Park and points south are attempting to be proactive. They’re gathering support for the proposed trail even though the tracks have yet to be abandoned by the parent company, Genesee &Wyoming [...]
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Despite numerous setbacks, support for the North Buffalo Greenway continues to grow among residents of the University district of the city. In 2004-2005, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) surprised trail advocates by selling two of three sections of the 2.5-mile corridor to private developers, even after the City had received $1.2 million in federal [...]
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Posted in Buffalo, Canoeing, Hiking, Kayaking, Paddling, Western NY, tagged Buffalo, canoe, hike, Hiking, kayak, new york, ny, olean, western, yahoo groups on March 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Yahoogroups.com is a very effective tool for bringing like minded folks together through an email list. You subscribe to a group who shares your common interest and can get invloved with doing things together and learning from one another. Sometimes, finding the groups can be a challenge. I’ve found 3 groups for those who live [...]
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Posted in Buffalo, Hiking, tagged , Buffalo, club, hike, Hiking, hunter's creek, hunter's creek park, new york, ny on November 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As Rich and I researched and promoted our 14 guidebooks for Footprint Press, we noticed a marked difference in the number of people interested in outdoors activities such as hiking in the three major city regions we covered: Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse. Rochester far surpassed the others in having outdoors people who loved building, maintaining, [...]
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