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Shawangunk Ridge Trail land in Greenville secured by Trail Conference

Also in December, the Trail Conference paid off the mortgage on another key parcel on the Shawangunk Ridge-the 135-acre Lindblom property near the New Jersey border.

The Trail Conference had purchased this impressive parcel in 2003 with a seller-held mortgage that required a large lump sum payment in December 2005. The Golden Family Foundation gave the Trail Conference a low interest loan that made the consummation of this purchase possible.

This acquisition safeguards the off-road route of the Shawangunk Ridge Trail in this area and adds significant buffer land to the trail as well. The property is located south and east of I-84 and offers impressive views south to High Point State Park in New Jersey and west across the Neversink River valley. It has road frontage on both I-84 (no parking allowed) and Old Mountain Road.

The Trail Conference is working with the town of Greenville to add a small parking area and SRT access point on land adjacent to Old Mountain Road.

The Trail Conference now owns more than 900 contiguous acres of the ridge in the towns of Greenville and Deerpark in Orange County. These lands were protected as part of the organization's continuing effort to secure a public use trail corridor from Sam's Point in the north to High Point, NJ.

For more information about the Trail Conference and its land protection program, visit www.nynjtc.org.