Highland, N.Y. - Ulster County Executive Mike Hein announces the Ulster County Department of Planning will be hosting a public informational meeting to discuss the County’s project to extend the Hudson Valley Rail Trail (HVRT) from New Paltz Road to South Street in the Town of Lloyd.  County Executive Hein encourages local officials, residents and businesses to attend the meeting on Wednesday, September 30 at 7:00 p.m. at the Town of Lloyd Town Hall.  The County’s engineering consultants, HVEA Engineers, will make a presentation highlighting preliminary plans for a 1.25-mile rail trail extension, for which the County received nearly $1.6 million in federal transportation funding.  Following the presentation, the Planning Department will solicit public input on the preliminary trail design.

The project, known as the “Hudson Valley Rail Trail (HVRT) West- Phase 4 (PIN 8761.21),” builds upon the Town of Lloyd’s Phase 3 project to extend the HVRT from its existing eastern terminus at Tony Williams Park westward to New Paltz Road.  The County’s HVRT Phase 4 project will further extend the bicycle and pedestrian trail eastward to South Street as part of the County Executive’s vision to eventually connect the Hudson Valley Rail Trail in Lloyd with the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail in New Paltz. 

Public Information Meeting

Hudson Valley Rail Trail West- Phase 4

September 30, 2015- 7:00 p.m.

Town of Lloyd Town Hall, 12 Church Street, Highland 

If special accommodations are required for members of the public to participate or for further information on the project, please contact HVEA Engineers at (845) 838-3600.  Following the meeting, written comments on the project will also be accepted and can be forwarded to: 

HVEA Engineers 

560 Route 52- Suite 201 

Beacon, NY 12508 

Attn. Brendan Fitzgerald, Project Manager