The Moosup Valley State Park Trail is a rail trail located on the railbed of a former New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad line in the New England towns of Plainfield and Sterling in Windham County, Connecticut. The line ran from 1898 until 1968. The rail line was abandoned in the late 1960s, and was designated by the state as a multi-use trail in 1987. The trail is owned and operated by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
It runs for approximately from Main Street in the center of the village of Moosup to the Rhode Island state line in the town of Sterling, where the trail continues into Rhode Island as the Coventry Greenway. The Moosup Valley Trail, together with the Quinebaug River Trail and the Air Line Trail, is "a critical link" in the Hartford to Providence section of the planned East Coast Greenway.
Crossings TownCarryingNotesCoordinatesPlainfield Route 14parking area/ terminus Moosup Riverriver crossingRiver StreetBarber Hill RoadBrunswick Avenue Route 14overpassSterlingMoosup RiverMain StreetIndustrial Park Road Route 14Providence RoadunderpassSpring Lake Road Route 14ASterling/ Coventry CT/ RI State Borderterminus
References
External links Moosup Valley State Park Trail Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Moosup Valley State Park Trail Map Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Plainfield: Moosup Valley State Park Trail Connecticut Department of Transportation Sterling: Moosup Valley State Park Trail Connecticut Department of Transportation