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Fall Work Days Trail work crews meet throughout the Fall every Sunday morning at 8:00 AM at our sign shed on Route 302 across from Osgood Brothers in Fryeburg. All are welcome and there’s always enough work for everyone to help. If you cannot arrive by 8:00 AM, you can still help. The work crew will leave a clipboard with the tasks and location for the work day so you can catch up with them later. Walkers Falls Bridge The need for a shorter and safer snowmobile trail to connect Denmark and Fryeburg in western Maine is becoming a reality. Currently, snowmobiles must cross over the Saco River using a highway bridge on Route 160. The brainstorm of the late Ralph Gallagher, first Trail Master of the Interstate Sno Goers of Fryeburg, was to connect Denmark and Fryeburg trails by crossing the 125 foot wide Saco River at Walker’s Falls. The site is an ideal place for a snowmobile crossing. The flood of 1936 destroyed the covered bridge that crossed the Saco. It left behind its split stone abutments and broke the connection from Fryeburg and Denmark on the north east side of Lovewell’s Pond.
Having a bridge and land owner’s permission, the Interstate Sno Goers moved forward. The bridge made its way from the DOT facility in Scarbough to Denmark on September 29 with the aid of Rick Bryant of Casco Bay Transportation. Alan Fox and Nate Gammon of Fox and Gammon Rigging of Windham, ME and Alan’s father, brother and nephew, Richard Fox, Kenny Fox and Jeff Blake from Fox and Sons of North Fryeburg, ME provided the needed crane service to place the two sections of the bridge in a field a mile and a half from Walker’s Falls. The Interstate Sno Goers are grateful and thank all who contributed their time and energy to the project. |
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David Richardson, current President of the Interstate Sno Goers contacted Scott Lindsey at the Inland Fish and Wildlife to request permission to have a bridge placed on the state owned land at Walkers Falls this past June. When David made the request, he and the working crew of the club assumed they would have to build their own bridge once they received the permission. But, by the grace of God, Scott Ramsay from the Snowmobile Division of the Department of Conservation, knowing the need for a snowmobile trail connector over the Saco, contacted David with a bridge owned by the DOT. What was once a foot bridge at the B&M plant in Portland, Maine (2 sections each 6 feet wide and 85 feet long and each weighing approximately 35,000 pounds) will soon be that connector.