This is what most of the County’s Millennium Trail looks like now but before long it will be smoothed out with 6 inches of fine limestone making it an excellent surface for motorized and non-motorized uses. (Photo/Quinte News)
It’s taken a while to get rolling but a major project to upgrade a recreational trail that crosses Prince Edward County is officially underway.
About 30 volunteers and County officials, many with shovels, officially broke ground on the project off Lake Street in Picton Tuesday morning.
When complete, the 46-kilometre trail will be smoothed out with a six inch crushed limestone surface.
Some of the trail in Wellington is already done, completed by the local Rotary Club.
Prince Edward Trails, a volunteer group, has raised $120,000 and County Council has committed $370,000 over three years to pay for the work.
Patrick Maloney, Chair of Prince Edward County Trails. (Photo/Quinte News)
The Chair of PEC Trails Patrick Maloney, former MP and representing MP Neil Ellis, Lyle Vanclief and Prince Edward County councillor Barry Turpin all stressed the ongoing commitment of many volunteers and their crucial role in getting good things done.
Shovels at the ready for an official groundbreaking for the Millennium Trail upgrade project off Lake Street in Picton Tuesday morning. In red to the right and representing MP Neil Ellis is MP and Minister of Agriculture Lyle VanClief. To his right is Prince Edward County councillor Barry Turpin. (Photo/Quinte News)
