A ceremony to mark the dedication of the Spurwink River Pedestrian Bridge, the largest single structure of the Cape Elizabeth Greenbelt Trail system, will be held Tuesday, May 17, at 9 a.m.
The dedication ceremony will honor the efforts of the town and the people of Cape Elizabeth to fund and complete the bridge. The bridge is the key to the town-wide trail network envisioned in the 2001 Greenbelt Plan.
It crosses the Spurwink River in the center of town, connecting the high school with the Gull Crest property off Spurwink Avenue.
The bridge is 20 feet long and eight feet wide and is part of a 375-foot network of boardwalks in the Gull Crest area. The boardwalks and bridge were part of an agreement between the town planner, the Department of Environmental Protection and the Cape Elizabeth Conservation Commission.
The negotiations took a year and at one point involved the DEP requesting control of 75 acres of marshland in the Gull Crest property as a requirement to their approval of the town’s plan to build the boardwalks. The DEP withdrew that requirement in July 2004.
The ceremony will be held on the northern end of the boardwalk approach to the bridge, which is a five-minute walk from the town center trail that extends east from Starboard Drive.
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