Littleton to Bethlehem Rail Trail
NHDHR Historical Review of Rail Line
12-2021 91-a: Rail Trail crossing at Industrial Park Road, Littleton.
1947: Cottage Street rail crossing can have lights
1996-3-21 Board of Trails to F&G, no OHRVs permitted on Keene Rail Trail.
1998: Littleton to Bethlehem(Whitefield) Rail Trail was purchased with Transportation Enhancement (TE) funds.
7-30-2007 DRED/DOT ask FHWA to let N.H. continue to allow ATVs on TE funded trails
https://www.atvwatch.com/Rail%20Trail%20TE%20Documents/Current%20Correspondence/2007_07_30_Letter_from_NHDOT_to_FHWA.pdf
2-29-2008 FHA to NH DOT: DRED's allowance of ATVs on TE funded rail trails is not legal and cannot be continued.
4-26-2013: Historic Rail Trails are protected.(Enfield)
2011 article Caledonian Record: "This stretch of trail is being looked at as a regional bike trail from the Cooley-Jericho Community Forest in Easton, to Gorham." Chris Gamache, BOT
2016 DOT tells Haverhill Blackmount Rail Trail not legal for OHRVs due to funding source.
1-20-2017 DOT tells Chris Gamache (BOT) and Andrew Dorsett, Littleton Town Manager, that ATVs will not be permitted on the Littleton to Bethlehem Rail Trail.
1-26-2017: DOT to Andrew Dorsett; Claremont failed in getting a waiver from the restriction on motorized use of their rail trail.
2018: Littleton Town Manager Andrew Dorsett checks off box for snowmobile use in RTP Grant for Rail Trail, thus permitting that use.
2-14-2019 Littleton to Bethlehem environmental report
2-14-2019 Littleton to Bethlehem environmental report cover letter
11-1-19 Caledonian Record "Discussion has been about continuing all existing uses north." Chris Gamache BOT
12-31-19: "OHRV use will not be allowed on the area we are working to remove the rail on." Chris Gamache, BOT
12-2021 91-A response from DOT re. OHRV permissions and funding of Rail Trail acquisitions
12- 2021 DOT Map showing end of OHRV-permitted section of Ammonoosuc Rail Trail, Littleton
12-2021 DOT map showing beginning of OHRV permitted section of Ammonoosuc Rail Trail, Woodsville.
