The Dutchess Rail Trail Park will be a shared use path along an abandoned railroad right-of-way in western Dutchess County as shown in the project location map below. The facility would span approximately 12 miles and run south to north in a northwesterly direction. The project originates at Hopewell Junction in the vicinity of Route 82 in the Town of East Fishkill, traverses the Towns of Wappinger, LaGrange, and Poughkeepsie, and terminates at Morgan Lake in the City of Poughkeepsie in the vicinity of Creek Road. Access to the facility will be accommodated through several trail heads at access points and road crossings adjacent to the corridor within each of the four towns.  (See  Directions to parking locations at the trail heads.)

Dutchess Rail Trail Map (.pdf/printable version of map below)

~ Design Workshop Maps ~

The identification of existing conditions and features, and ideas produced from the design workshops of the four public information meetings held in 2006 are illustrated in the maps below:

• Town of Poughkeepsie Northern Section
• Town of Poughkeepsie Southern Section
• Town of Wappinger
• Town of East Fishkill
• Town of LaGrange Northern Section
• Town of LaGrange Southern Section