kamoore63
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If anyone is heading in Zealand Rd., please be aware that there's an alternative route as the bridge is still "technically" closed. To take the alternative route, leave from the opposite end of the parking lot, cross Rt. 302, and head down the shoulder toward Crawford Notch. Once you're over the river, look for boot tracks leading down into the woods on your right. It's at least a half mile along the river until you connect with the road just above the bridge.
I write "technically" because most of the people in our group (plus almost everyone else we met on the road this New Year's weekend) just came over the bridge anyway (the decking is all there and it appears they only have finishing work to do but I'm sure from a liability perspective they don't want people on it until it's officially finished) since the alternative is somewhat long, adding (with the schlep down the road) something I'd guess at just under a mile to the trip.
On the positive side, the fact that the snowmobile trail dead-ends at the bridge seemed to reduce the numbers of the infernal machines along Zealand Rd.
I write "technically" because most of the people in our group (plus almost everyone else we met on the road this New Year's weekend) just came over the bridge anyway (the decking is all there and it appears they only have finishing work to do but I'm sure from a liability perspective they don't want people on it until it's officially finished) since the alternative is somewhat long, adding (with the schlep down the road) something I'd guess at just under a mile to the trip.
On the positive side, the fact that the snowmobile trail dead-ends at the bridge seemed to reduce the numbers of the infernal machines along Zealand Rd.