Featured image: NH Seacoast Greenway Phase 1A near Eileen Dondero Foley Ave. and Islington St., taken April 2024, before it officially opened. The ribbon cutting took place in summer 2024, and it was officially designated part of the ECG in 2025.
The East Coast Greenway Alliance looked back on the progress made in 2025 in advancing its vision for a 3,000-mile bike path from Maine to Florida.
Almost every greenway state played a role in either a groundbreaking, a ribbon cutting, or preliminary efforts (feasibility studies, planning, funding) to add new miles to the Greenway, or to spur trails. Here is a summary of the highlights from New England:
- Maine: Eastern Trail Close the Gap project groundbreaking – 1.6 new path miles in Scarborough and South Portland
- New Hampshire: ribbon cutting on Phase 1A of the NH Seacoast Greenway between Portsmouth and Hampton
- Massachusetts: almost $2 million in MassTrails investments toward advancing gap-closing segments of the East Coast Greenway, or adjacent segments
- Connecticut: May opening of the 1.6-mile Farmington Canal Heritage Trail, Phase IV, in New Haven
Rhode Island is not featured, however, I trust that good ECG news will arise from the Ocean State in the coming years.
Jeff Brubaker 