More Acreage Donated for Recreation in Galway

Arlene and Dusty Rhodes and Saratoga PLAN Communications Assistant Rachel Renders. Photos provided.  

GALWAY – Harold and Arlene Rhodes have donated 23 acres of forested land to the group Saratoga Preserving Land and Nature (PLAN), connecting the Milton Preserve to the south and the recently acquired lands on the Carpenter farm to the north.

Together, these properties could provide a natural corridor for the proposed extension of the Long Path trail between New Jersey and the Adirondacks. Saratoga PLAN will steward these lands, with plans for creating public trails across all three adjoining properties. The official transaction closing was on July 28.

With the blessing of the Town of Galway, the land was merged into Saratoga PLAN’s adjacent property donated by Maryanna Milton. A grant from Saratoga County’s Land Preservation Fund covered transactional costs for title insurance, boundary survey, environmental site assessment, legal work and project management.

Saratoga PLAN still needs to raise $22,000 for the project to ensure that it can provide proper stewardship of the property in perpetuity.

For more information, call 518-587-5554, or visit www.saratogaplan.org.