Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, May 4, 2023
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After years of planning, Windsor is on the brink of connecting its waterfront trail along the Connecticut River to the longer and better-known riverfront walk in Hartford.

A new state grant will help the town fill in a gap between the northern and southern ends of its riverwalk, creating a 7-mile-long walkway between northern Windsor and downtown Hartford.

Even more significantly, the completed trail could soon be connected to other walkways and bike paths that would provide safe, off-road routes between Windsor, East Hartford, South Windsor, Enfield, Suffield and beyond.

The key link for Windsor was a $552,000 state grant that will pay for a bridge over Deckers Brook. The distance between the trail ends is a bit less than 850 feet, but without the bridge, walkers and cyclists couldn’t get to the other side.

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