Woodside featured in first "Future CCT Walk"

Over 30 residents from Woodside, North Woodside and Woodside Park accepted the Invitation to walk the future CCT, and took a guided tour of one mile of the future trail on February 2. The walk was led by Webb Smedley and me for the Woodside Civic Association. The tour covered the section of the future CCT from behind the District Courthouse at Apple Avenue to the Talbot Avenue Bridge at North Woodside.

Many guests on the tour were surprised to see how well the Trail can fit along the east side of the CSX corridor, with significant parts of the Trail being in the trees. The Woodside residents were generally very supportive of both the Trail and the Purple Line light-rail. The benefit the Trail can bring to Woodside by giving safe off-road trail access to Rock Creek Park and beyond is especially attractive to Woodside residents, compared to the unsafe on-road access along the Georgetown Branch "Trail".

This was the first of a series of monthly trail walks along the future CCT east of Rock Creek through this spring. Watch this blog for announcements of the future walks. If you have a special interest area on the planned CCT east of Rock Creek, feel free to contact me at phyilla1@gmail.com . We can tailor one of the future walks to that interest, or set up a special walk or bike tour for you.

The "Save the Trail" folks have been giving walks of the CCT for years. But their walks never look at the CCT east of Rock Creek. We hope to put more balance into the "Save the Trail" vs. "Finish the Trail" Purple Line debate by showing the part of the CCT that has been largely forgotten - east of Rock Creek.