Trail’s 30th anniversary celebrated Saturday
CABOT — The Butler-Freeport Community Trail is rated as easy, but getting it built was hard.
Its backers had to contend with nine years of lawsuits over ownership of the trail corridor and then damage to the trail caused by 2004’s Hurricane Ivan.
So Saturday’s celebration of the 30th anniversary of the trail’s opening on Oct. 2, 1992, was a chance to celebrate the accomplishments of the past and look forward to future projects along the 20-mile corridor enjoyed by walkers and cyclists.
Running from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the trail’s Cabot parking lot, the event featured a railroad caboose decked out for Halloween, a display of the trail’s history, a food truck selling hot dogs and doughnuts, a table selling T-shirts and a bike shop display featuring the latest e-bikes.
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