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The Auburn Trail is a multi-use rail trail located principally in the town of Victor, Ontario County, New York (USA). It is approximately long and maintained by the Town of Victor and Victor Hiking Trails.〔http://www.victorhikingtrails.org/〕 The trail mostly follows the alignment of the Auburn and Rochester Railroad. Additional disconnected portions of the Auburn trail are found in the Towns of Brighton, Pittsford, Monroe County, NY, and Farmington, Ontario County, NY. ==Victor - Farmington Route== North and west of Wolston Rd, the Town of Pittsford continues the Auburn Trail for a ways as a footpath. This section was constructed and is maintained by the Town of Victor, New York and (Victor Hiking Trails Inc. ) as a multiuse trail. Their detailed map of the Auburn Trail and trail description is (available ). It is mostly 8-foot to 10-foot wide stonedust surface. Most of the route is on the bed of the Auburn and Rochester Railroad (later New York Central Railroad). It passes through village, suburban, rural, parkland, light industrial, and considerable "suburban wild" areas. The Auburn Trail runs southeast from Woolston Rd and Powder Mills Park (extended in 2012-'13) and crosses Railroad Mills Rd. There are two bridges over Irondequoit Creek, one the original railroad stone culvert, the other a new (2011) steel bridge where the old culvert collapsed. There is limited parking available at the trailhead in Powder Mills Park, at Railroad Mills Rd, and Fishers Rd. A pocket park is located at the steel bridge. The trail crosses Fishers Road approximately north of the New York State Thruway, and then crosses under the Thruway shortly thereafter (because the Auburn Railroad was active when the Thruway was constructed, the Thruway was built over the alignment; this tunnel under the Thruway continues to serve the trail.) From the Thruway, the trail continues south, over Irondequoit Creek, and through the hamlet of Fishers, New York. In and around Fishers is an area known as "Art Along the Auburn." Some of the art includes a mural in the Thruway underpass (2014-2015), an innovative bike rack as a train cowcatcher, a "troll" next to a bridge on the connecting Domine Trail, and others for trail users to discover. A cobblestone pump house, built in 1845 and used to water the steam locomotives, is just south of Main Street Fishers. Parking is available at the trailhead and kiosk behind the Fishers Fire House. The trail continues to the southeast of Fishers, past Phillips Road. In this block, a new major sports facility is under construction (2014).〔http://www.pinnacle-athletic.com/〕 Limited parking is available at Phillips Rd. Approximately southeast of Phillips Road, the trail passes under the steel truss bridge of the old Lehigh Valley Railroad, now the Lehigh Valley Trail.〔http://www.monroecounty.gov/Image/LEHIGHTRAILPARK.pdf〕〔http://www.victorhikingtrails.org/map/trails/td-l.html〕 As the Auburn Railroad was built forty years before the Lehigh Valley, the newer road was obligated to build its bridge over the older line. There is available parking in the nearby FLCC facility and in Lehigh Crossing Park. The Auburn Trail continues southeast from the Lehigh Valley, passing Victor-Mendon Road (Rt. 251) and Rawson Road to School Road in the Village of Victor. Limited parking is available at NY251 and at Rawson Rd. The Seneca Trail shares some of this section as it crosses the Auburn Trail. The Trolley Trail also shares with both along here. Here the Auburn Trail detours briefly from the old Auburn Road, to bypass an active rail siding. The trail follows School Street northeast for a short distance, before turning southeast on the old Rochester, Syracuse and Eastern Rapid Railroad alignment. This interurban electric railway ran trolleys from Rochester to Auburn from 1906 to 1930, and the Auburn Trail follows the alignment for from School Street to Maple Avenue in the Village of Victor. The trail then follows Maple Street south to the intersection with the Auburn Railroad alignment at Railroad Street. The trail continues to the southeast past the old Victor Passenger Station of the Auburn Railroad, now a gift shop. Parking is available at the far end of the lot here. A trailhead kiosk is at Maple St. East of the old station, the trail continues on past Ketchum Street to Brace Road then on to Break of Day Rd. Limited parking is at both Brace and Break of Day Rds. There the trail detours around the next privately owned section of the Auburn Railroad alignment; the trail following Break of Day Road to the east, and then East Victor Road to the south before returning to the rail bed just before the power lines cross East Victor Road. (There is also a parallel off-road foot-path here that fords two streams and has some steep hills.) The trail then continues to the east, entering the Town of Farmington, crosses over Mud Creek on an enormous railroad embankment and then passes by the former railroad hamlet of Mertensia NY.〔http://wnyrails.net/cities/mertensia.html〕 Parking is available in Farmington's Mertensia Park. The short Farmington portion of the Auburn Trail crosses Mertensia Road and follows through a modern subdivision to Boughton Hill Road (County Road 41.) The trail terminates at that point. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Auburn Trail」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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