Trenton Walks! closes out 2024, its inaugural year, with a walk this Saturday morning in Stacy Park from Riverside Drive on “The Island” to the Trenton Water Filtration Plant and back. Then it opens 2025 with another walk commemorating two Revolutionary War Battles of Trenton – 1776 and 1777 – on Saturday morning, January 4 starting at, of course, the Battle Monument and on to Mill Hill Park and back.

These walks show the commitment of walking enthusiasts who have come out by the dozens since the program launched in June. Since then 162 people have turned out for 26 walks and have covered a collective 425 miles.

“We’re just getting started with our walking celebration of Trenton and our ability to enjoy its various sites of history, beauty, nature and urban landscapes,” said Larry Paul, chair of the Trenton Green Team and executive sponsor of the Trenton Walks! program.

“During the cold months of winter, we will continue walking, enjoying each other’s company and getting to know Trenton in a different way,” said the walks Co-Chair Tim Brill, Central Jersey project manager of the N.J. Conservation Foundation. “Our intention is to host two walks each month, one each Saturday morning starting at 9:30 a.m. at a different location and the other starting at lunchtime on the third Wednesday of the month.”

For this Saturday’s walk, people should meet on Trenton’s Island neighborhood at 1399 Riverside Drive no later than 9:30 a.m. For the walk on January 4, people should meet at the intersection of N. Warren and Tucker Streets just south of the Battle Monument at 9:30 a.m. Details about the remaining winter walks are still being developed and will be shared before the end of the year.

“For our full ‘good weather’ launch in April, we will create a robust schedule of one to two walks each week of each month through October or November,” added Becky Taylor, also a Trenton Walks! co-chair and former co-chair of the Lawrence Hopewell Trail. The schedule for spring through fall will be announced early in 2025.

The Trenton Walks! program includes a number of walk leaders who helped conceive and host 26 walks:

• Gulu Brewer, vice chair for the Trenton Green Team and Permanent Housing Case Manager with Homefront.
• James (J.R.) Capasso, City of Trenton Brownfields coordinator and Trenton Green Team liaison.
• MacKenzie Piggott, State Trails coordinator for the Green Acres Program at N.J. Department of Environmental Protection.
• Jacque Howard, media guru with Trenton365.
• Shereyl Snider, community organizer for East Trenton Collaborative.
• Zeke Weston, policy coordinator for New Jersey Future.

“We encourage others who would like to co-lead walks with us to let us know of their interest, and we also seek ideas for walking routes,” said Brill, who can be reached at tim.brill@njconservation.org or 609-947-8530.

“But most of all, we invite everyone who enjoys being in and of the Trenton community to join us on any and all walks,” said Corey Hannigan, lead for the Mercer County Action Team of the Circuit Coalition, which co-sponsors the walks program.

To learn more about the walks, please visit the Greater Mercer Transportation Management Association’s “Trail Happenings” webpage: https://gmtma.org/trail-happenings/

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