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Plus trail cleanups, furnishings, bridges and more

November 17, 2023 View this email in your browser Dear Friends, As Thanksgiving approaches, Friends of Stewart Park thanks you - our volunteers, supporters and partners - for all you do to maintain and enhance Stewart Park and the Cayuga Waterfront Trail. While FSP is focused on our two priority projects - preparing to build the Splash Pad and Accessible Bathrooms and planning for the Wharton Studio & Café - we continue to work on the little things that make a big difference. These include facilitating the fundraising, fabricationand installation of park gliders, trail benches and new interpretive and wayfinding signs. We are so pleased that our partners at the City and Town of Ithaca are also working to create safer and more comfortable connections from the Cayuga Waterfront Trail to other regional trails, schools and adjacent neighborhoods. The City has recently installed an impressive pedestrian bridge spanning the Flood Channel from the Floral Avenue Trail to Cecil Malone Drive. And the Town of Ithaca has begun developing plans for much needed trail connections between Ithaca High School, Boynton Middle School and the Cayuga Waterfront Trail, near the Youth Bureau. These significant public infrastructure projects are time consuming and expensive, but once done are well worth the wait. Read on and wishing you all a safe and Happy Thanksgiving. After dinner on Thursday, enjoy a walk on the Waterfront Trail! Trail Maintenance Matters! Nearly every week throughout the spring, summer and fall, FSP staff and volunteers blow the Ithaca Farmers Market Trailhead. That’s because on Saturday mornings the trailhead is jammed with market visitors enjoying pitas, burritos, coffee, cider donuts and more. We blow the bricks and surrounding trails, and keep the edge vegetation pruned so you can enjoy the views of the Inlet. Have you heard of the Friends of Stewart Park Adopt-A-Trail program? Trail Adopters choose a section of the Cayuga Waterfront Trail to care for. Doug Dylla and a few of his Finger Lakes Cycling Club pals have adopted the trail spur from the Farmers Market to 3rd street. Thank you to Doug for coming out on Friday, October 27 to work on his adopted section. Along with FSP’s Landscape Gardener Frank Muller, Doug cleared leaves and debris making the trail cleaner and safer for everyone to enjoy. If you might like to become a Trail Adopter, email Rick Manning at rick@friendsofstewartpark.org for more info! Two New CWT Benches Installed! FSP recently installed two custom-designed benches along the trail, one in Stewart Park and one in Cass. The benches are placed to the side of a large concrete slab to provide space for wheelchairs, strollers, or other mobility aids to be placed adjacent to the bench. Special thanks to bench sponsors Carol Mallison and Vaidehi Pidaparti for their generous contributions. Along with these benches, two new gliders have gone in at Stewart Park. Thank you again to Jamie and Tammy Tedeschi, Todd and Erika Goodyear and Charlene Temple for these swing-benches. Black Diamond Trail Bridge Appears! An impressive new pedestrian bridge is in the works linking the west end of Cecil A. Malone Drive to the Floral Avenue Trail. The trail spans the Flood Channel to maintain the integrity of the Olympic-size rowing course. Once completed the trail will be an excellent pedestrian and bike connection from West Hill to Wegman’s and the adjacent commercial district. It also represents the first step in the southern extension of the Black Diamond Trail which will connect to Buttermilk Falls and Robert H. Treman State Parks and to the Gateway Trail and South Hill Recreationway. Special thanks to Tim Logue, City Engineer, for bringing this project to fruition. Photo credit Ari Kissiloff, 14850.com. See many more bridge pictures and videos posted on the Facebook Group, Black Diamond Trail, Ithaca to Taughannock Making Safer School to Trail Connections On November 15, planners and engineers from Barton & Loguidice shared preliminary concepts with a small but passionate group of bicyclists and trail advocates for a bicycle safety corridor for NYS Route 34 between Boynton Middle School and the Ithaca Youth Bureau. This feasibility study will help the Town of Ithaca’s Planning Department determine how to improve safety for pedestrians and bicyclists looking to access the Waterfront Trail, Ithaca Youth Bureau and Stewart Park from the schools and adjacent neighborhoods. For more information on the project, visit this website. Frank’s Art & Photography Show FSP is so grateful to have Landscape Gardener Frank Muller on our staff to help take care of our trailheads, overlooks and special gardens in Stewart Park and along the Waterfront Trail. Frank is also a passionate naturalist and talented photographer, taking many of his pictures while out on the Cayuga Waterfront Trail and in Stewart Park, including the one at the top of this enews. Currently, Frank’s photos are on display at Greenstar. Find them in the cafe near the windows. They’ll be up through the end of December. You can also follow Frank’s Photography on Instagram and Facebook. Copyright (C) 2023 Friends of Stewart Park, Inc.. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe