 On March 2, 2016, town voters approved the $172,000 acquisition of a former quarry Middle Haddam Road to serve as the trailhead; this served as the 20% local match for potential state funding.An existing quarter-mile access road to the quarry leads north from the trailhead parking area to the rail trail.Later that month, the extension was allocated $686,000 in the same round of grants that funded the East Hampton Phase II.