Fitzgerald Lake Accessible Bridge and Boardwalk Completed

Conservation Works collaborated with the Student Conservation Association (SCA), Broad Brook Coalition, and City of Northampton to put it a new, wheelchair-accessible bridge and boardwalk at the Fitzgerald Lake Conservation Area this August. Funding for the project came from the DCR Recreational Trails Program and the City of Northampton. Under Dick O’Brien’s supervision, five young, hard-working trail construction hands from the Massachusetts SCA did the initial ground-breaking work. Dick then worked with volunteers from the Broad Brook Coalition to complete the fiberglass bridge and sections of boardwalk at each end of the bridge. Subcontractor Walker Korby and his crew did the additional work of raising the old boardwalk leading to the edge of Fitzgerald Lake by one foot and placing it on new supports. Together, the new bridging becomes a critical part of the extensive trail system that Broad Brook has put together over many years.