Cross New Hampshire Adventure Trail (xNHAT) will undertake upgrades

In the coming months, Cross New Hampshire Adventure Trail (xNHAT) will undertake upgrades to segments of the four-season recreational rail that extends from Woodsville through Littleton to Wing Road in Bethlehem. “There’s a lot of projects underway and I’m looking forward to this spring and summer to complete things,” said Marianne Borowski, founder of xNHAT. A big project is extending the rail trail from Oxbow Drive at the Littleton-Bethlehem town line farther into Bethlehem to Wing Road, in all about a 2.6-mile stretch, which currently still has rails and ties. Beginning in May, or April if possible, the plan is to pull up the existing rails and ties on the discontinued rail line and then apply a hard-pack surface. The pulling work will take about a month, and Borowski expects the new surface to be applied by early summer for bicycling and other recreational uses.