I finally made it to New Island, an almost inaccessible land between the highway and the south side commercial development. I can't quite imagine how it is an island. After some research, I found that a local professor and his students published studies about it in 2002. One student documented how the river has changed course over the last few centuries. It was an island between the now-gone manmade Electric Lake and the Susquehanna River.
Most of the length of the trail is on the top of a railroad bed above wetlands. I wasn't able to find out when the railroad was used or abandoned, maybe when the bridge was washed out.
I have four pictures of the trail and bridge remnants. It's hard to understand what a between world New Island is.
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