What is Sentiers Chelsea Trails up to this summer?

Once again, volunteers are busy building trails for the benefit of the community!

The major work this summer is on the Chelsea Park Trail, which runs from Ch. du Manoir to Route 105 (behind Ben’s Towing). Coordinated by Marc Desjardins, this roughly 1km trail features a beautiful 14 meter bridge and one more to come this fall – the result of many, many hours of volunteer building effort! It’s designed for travel on foot only – not bikes – to respect the wishes of adjacent homeowners. (more…)

Big crowd comes to hear benefits of rails trails

More than Chelsea Cars100 residents packed into the Cascades Club last night to hear about the opportunities and benefits of turning Chelsea’s railway corridor into a year round, multi-purpose trail.  The meeting was organized by Chelsea Rails 2 Trails, a newly formed group seeking to provide information and mobilize support for the rails to trails project under consideration by the Municipality.  If you missed last night’s meeting, you can take a look at the presentation.

New SCT Trail Ambassadors stand up for Chelsea community trail project

Trail Ambassadors

At the Sentiers Chelsea Trails AGM, which was held April 25, attendees welcomed many of the new Chelsea Trail Ambassadors who are speaking up to support the transformation of the railway corridor into a multi-use, non-motorized, year-round community trail. These prominent Chelsea residents and community leaders want to lend their names and contribute to the future of this community-building project.

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