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The Lamoille Valley Rail Trail, a “Bump”
in the Road.
by Bill Bartlett, Board Member
While comprehensive work on the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail is still some
time away, thanks to the Vermont Agency of Transportation (Vtrans), there
is a “bump” in the “road” or in the Lamoille Valley
Rail Trail. In Hyde Park Village in late August and early September, Vtrans
replaced a substandard bridge over the Rail Trail by filling a portion
of the original railroad bed on Depot Street at the south end of Hyde
Park Village.
The fill, which is just to the east of Hyde Park’s
planned Rail Trail parking area and informational kiosk, creates an on-grade
crossing by Depot Street of the Rail Trail. Signs on Depot Street, in
both directions, mark this crossing indicating “Recreational Trail
All-Season”. There is a level area on each side of Depot Street
for Trail Users to wait for passing vehicle traffic. The fill for this
project impacts roughly 500 feet of the trail, and creates a 150 foot
8% grade in each direction (the “bump”). The filled area is
surfaced with crushed stone. 
Bikers enjoying the neighboring Missiquoi Valley Rail Trail.
Nearby businesses like this beer brewery will surely benefit from a completed LVRT recreational trail.
Friends
of the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail, Inc.
P.O. Box 995 Morrisville, VT 05661
Copyright 2007 by the Friends of the Lamoille Rail Trail, Inc.
Photographs on this site by Becka Roolf, Kevin Russell and others
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