Some great pictures of our recently constructed Board Walk stretching across a section of Croaghan Way, Altarichard. The boardwalk is approximately 80m in length and is designed to help walkers navigate a particularly boggy section of the Croaghan Way trail on the approach to the beautiful Breen Forest.
Croaghan Way Walk is a circular walking route approximately 6.5 miles long located close to Altarichard Rd, County Antrim.
Our contract for client Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council is part of an overall programme of works to upgrade sections of the International Appalachian Trail.
The IAT is a hiking trail which runs from the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail at Mount Katahdin, Maine, through New Brunswick, to the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec, after which it follows a ferry route to Newfoundland, and then continues to the northern-easternmost point of the Appalachian Mountains at Belle Isle, Newfoundland and Labrador.
In 2009, plans were made to extend the IAT to the Appalachian terrains of Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Wales, setting off a series of expansions through Europe and Northern Africa. As of July 2015, there were IAT walking trails in Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Wales, England, France, Spain, Portugal, and Morocco.
Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council has identified the need to carry out improvement and upgrade works to the existing trail network in their area. Our works will include the supply and installation of Interpretation Panels, Way Finding Posts, Signage, Gates, Stiles, Pedestrian Control Chicanes, Fencing, Footbridges, Circular Stone Markers as well as repair works. This project involves multiple sites and covers a vast geographic area in the North of Ireland, from Dungiven, the Sperrin Mountains in the west to the North Coast and Glens of Antrim in the East.
We congratulate Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council for helping to bring a project of this size and scope to fruition and we know this scheme is eagerly awaited by the local community and tourists.