CONWAY — The fact that more than 50 people came out for the MWV Trails Association’s 2.9-mile paved North Conway Multi-use Alternative Transportation Recreation Path groundbreaking ceremony serves as testament to the power of community and love of the great outdoors shared by just about everyone who makes the Mount Washington Valley their home.
Held Nov. 3 at the northern terminus of the soon-to-be built paved trail — near the new hotel going up at Cranmore Mountain Resort — the joy and relief expressed by those who spoke could not be dampened by the light rain that occasionally fell.
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