Milan ATV Club seeks grant for new 1.17 mile trail

Larry Gomes of Stark, Milan Trail Huggers ATV Club trail master, just finished writing an Recreational Trails Program grant application for a new trail project in Stark to get ATVs off 2.2 miles of gravel town roads. (EDITH TUCKER PHOTO)

STARK — Larry Gomes, trail master of the Milan Trail Huggers ATV Club who now lives year-round near South Pond with his wife Kate, has spent many hours at his computer preparing an application for a Recreational Trails Program grant to pay the bulk of the costs for a new 1.17-mile-long recreational trail in Stark. The Bell Hill connector is designed to eliminate ATVs from traveling on 2.12 miles of gravel town roads: Leighton Meadow Road and parts of both Bell Hill and Paris Roads.

“This proposed connector is a pretty complicated project because it involves two wetland crossings and one stream crossing,” Gomes explained. “This project to build a trail on private land between Bell Hill and Paris Roads would not be possible without the support of landowner Harley Mason, Jr. of Milan who gave permission for the club to cross his property.”

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