Trail Promotion Confab

  Today, Marie and I participated in a "non-meeting" to brainstorm ideas for promoting the North Country Trail. The NCT NY state council is really active in trying to present a coordinated effort to promote the NCT. NY has additional difficulties since only 13% of the state is covered by NCT Chapters. The rest is under the affiliates of the Finger Lakes Trail and Adirondack Mountain Club. This is not a bad thing, but it presents extra challenges.

Anyway, we met at the Finger Lakes Visitor Center in Geneva. That is Seneca Lake in the background. Ruth, Marie and I were there. Also Diane, whose name you've seen here a fair amount in the last year, and Karen who was new to me but has been a volunteer with the Central NY Chapter for quite a while.

Inside the Visitor Center, they have a great floor map of the Finger Lakes area. Of course, we think they should add the FLT/NCT in addition to all the wine trails they have noted.

We took a little walk along the Canalway Trail. On the way we stopped to study the map of the Cayuga-Seneca Canal Trail. Diane, who knows tons of local history stuff, pointed out some features.

We had a little "tour" provided by one of the Visitor Center employees. He took a nice picture of all of us, but it's on someone else's phone and I don't have it yet.

However, that evening Ruth, Dan, Marie and I walked downtown here, where there is a map of Canandaigua Lake painted on a walkway. And look what they have with it. A hiking trail!

Miles hiked so far in 2024: 347.3.

Canalway Trail, Geneva, NY. 1.6 miles

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