After 12 years a group of  volunteers has completed the Cohos Trail. NHPR's Chris Jensen reports.

After 12 years a group of volunteers just finished the Cohos Trail which goes through some of the most remote and beautiful parts of Coos County, stopping at the Canadian border.

“It is a 165-mile system and it runs over some 35 peaks, six or seven waterfalls, lots of cliff environments, some wildlife refuges of real size.”

That’s Kim Nilsen of the Cohos Trail Association.

There were already many miles of trail winding north. But they started and stopped.

“Quite a lot of trail in the system already existed. It is just that it had never been linked together. We probably cut fifty or sixty miles of trail to link things together.”

Now one can walk from the Saco River at Hart’s Location to the Canadian Border at the Fourth Connecticut Lake.

The next step for the association is building a few shelters.

For NHPR News this is Chris Jensen