littleton_to_bethlehem_rail_trail

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Littleton to Bethlehem Rail Trail

NHDHR Historical Review of Rail Line

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

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.

nhdot_-_town_of_bethlehem_env._rerport_letter_feb_14_2019.pdf

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