Board of Selectmen
Town Seeks To Add New Trails in Waveny
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Town officials say they want to create at least two new trails within Waveny as well as a more formal pedestrian entrance to the southern portion of the park. The first new trail would cross from an existing one near the pedestrian crosswalk at the Saxe baseball field to the turf playing fields of New Canaan High School, officials said during the Board of Selectmen’s regular meeting Tuesday. A more formal pedestrian entrance to the park opposite Conrad
Road also would be installed, they said, with a new trail leading into the southeastern corner of the park and former “cornfields” area, which has been restored as a meadow. The project also would include a “maintenance upgrade of the northeast section, behind the high school and up to Farm Road,” Greg Reilly, the town’s grant writer, said during the selectmen meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. A final part of the project would provide funding to study options for a “buffer between the Merritt Parkway and the southern part of the trail, something that the [Waveny Park] Conservancy has talked about as something they’d like to achieve,” Reilly said.