Black Diamond Trail

Links

Please let us know if any of these links no longer work (info@blackdiamondtrail.org)

• In the press:
  • Ithaca Times, December 17, 2007, “Happy Trails” by Stacey Silliman.
  • Ithaca Journal, Tuesday, December 18, 2007: “Support Black Diamond” — a letter to the editor from Marian Mumford, Ithaca.
  • Tompkins Weekly, December 17-23, 2007, Black Diamond Trail Takes Step Forward, by Beth Skwarecki. (PDF)
  • Ithaca Journal, Saturday, June 2, 2007: “Kayak raffle planned in conjunction with National Trails Day” — an article related to National Trails Day on the following day.
  • Ithaca Journal, Saturday, April 4, 2007: “State approval sought for trail” — article on clearing brush north of Willow Creek Rd. with some nice photos by Bill Warren.
• Parks & Trails New York — the only organization working statewide to protect New York’s parks and help communities create new parks.
• Rails-to-Trails Conservancy — the definitive organization for matters relating to rail trails.
• Ithaca-Tompkins County Hiking Site — a privately developed site with heaps of info about trails of all kinds and links to even more.
• Ithaca-Tompkins County Transportation Council — this is the city agency that deals with things like bicycle transportation and general development of alternative transportation modalities. Lots of interesting facts and maps.
• Multi-Use Trails in Tompkins County — a map (very large PDF!) of existing trails, planned trails, and trails currently under development. This is a working document, so if we don’t update it for a while, be sure to check the Transportation Council (above) to learn what’s new.
• Wikipedia: Trails in Ithaca, New York — a thorough survey of the wealth of trails around us with quite a bit of good background info.
• Finding Ulysses is a blog for the Ulysses/Trumansburg area and has several good pieces about the BDT trail work days: From 2006, “30 Show Up To Clear the Black Diamond Trail;” From 2007, “Black Diamond Trail Work is ON!” and “Black Diamond Trail Work Session Goes Well” (nice pix, including one of Jan Zeserson feeding info to the Ithaca Journal reporter).