Northwest Hills Council of Governments Regional Recreational Trail Networks (Current & Proposed) Appalachian Trail Proposed Housatonic Continues to Maine River Greenway Continues to Headwaters

Proposed North Canaan Housatonic Recovery Trail

North Canaan

Proposed Burgoyne Route

Hartland Colebrook

Salisbury Proposed Robbins Swamp Trail Norfolk

Proposed Robbins Swamp Trail

Canaan

Proposed East-West Trail Continues to New England Trail

Barkhamsted

Winchester

Proposed Goshen Connector

Sharon

Cornwall Goshen

New Hartford

Torrington

Burlington Litchfield Harwinton

Warren

Kent

Proposed Naugatuck River Greenway Continues to Confluence Morris with Housatonic

Proposed Housatonic Appalachian Trail River Greenway Mattatuck Trail Continues to Georgia Continues to Long Continues to Island Sound Wolcott, CT

Washington Potential Shepaug Mattatuck Connector 0 0.25 0.5 1 1.5 Miles

Existing Trails

Appalachian Trail Litchfield Blue Blazed Hiking Trails Warren Trails

NHCOG Towns

Waterbody 1 M Protected Open Space ile Proposed Trails

Bantam Proposed Robbins Swamp Trail Lake Proposed Goshen Connector Proposed Burgoyne Trail Proposed East-West Trail Proposed Naugatuck River Greenway Roxbury 1.5 Mile Buffer Proposed North Canaan Housatonic River Recovery Trail Shepaug RR Trail Proposed HouBike Trail Morris Proposed Shepaug RR Washington Proposed Mattatuck Connector Route Proposed Naugatuck Greenway Connector Proposed Housatonic River Greenway

0 1 2 4 6 8 Miles

Connecticut State Plane Projection on the North American Datum 1983 (2011)

Map Data Sources: Protected Open Space data is created by the Housatonic Valley Association, with the generous support of Greenprint members, in an attempt to stay current with the ongoing conservation Contributing Conservation Organizations efforts in the Greenprint service area. Sue Grossman Still River Greenway, Billings Trail, Shepaug Rail Trail, Proposed East- West Trail, Proposed Naugatuck River Greenway, Proposed HouBike Trail, and Proposed Housatonic River Greenway were digitized by the Housatonic Valley Association. Proposed Naugatuck Greenway Connector is from the City of Torrington. Appalachian Trail centerline and town boundary shapefiles were obtained from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. The Proposed Mattatuck Connector and the CT Blue-Blazed Hiking Trails data were obtained from the Connecticut Forest & Park Association. All trail buffers are Regional Recreational Trail created by HVA and are 1.5 mile buffers from the trail Networks (Current & Proposed) centerline. Other Trails were compiled from GPS data, existing Map prepared by Ryan Williams maps and Aerial imagery (CT ECO 2016). All proposed trail and updated by Stacy Deming in June, 2017 using best available alignments are conceptual and are subject to change. This trail project was funded by The Conneticut Department of Tansporatation data. under contract with The Housatonic Valley Association. The Northwest Hills Created in ESRI ArcMap 10.4(R), Service Layer Credits: Sources: Esri, HERE, Council of Governments would like to thank its 21 municipalities Map Projection: NAD 1983 DeLorme, Intermap, increment P Corp., GEBCO, and the members of the non profit land trust community including Litchfield USGS, FAO, NPS, NRCAN, GeoBase, IGN, (2011)State Plane, Kadaster NL, Ordnance Survey, Esri Japan, METI, Greenprint and the members of the NHCOG Trails Committee.