County officials are looking for a $30,000 grant to help with work on the county’s Bike-Hike Trail along Route 62.

Josh Cotton, county grant writer, asked the Warren County Commissioners for approval to apply for a People, Park and Community Foundation grant to help pay for scheduled repair work on the trail. Commissioners unanimously approved the application.

“The target is to be able to rehabilitate the existing trail surface,” Cotton said. “This will be the first of several foundation asks coming in the next few months. I’m pretty optimistic we’ll be able to get that trail redone during the

next construction season.”

The county Bike-Hike trail is a paved “Rails to Trails” that runs along the Conewango Creek and Route 62 between Warren and North Warren where the former DAV&P Railroad traveled. The route includes the original train station that was converted into a restaurant and foundations from oil refineries dating back to the oil boom in Warren County.

The project will address dozens of cracks in the trail, and asphalt overlay the entire 2.65-mile length of the trail, according to a previously approved grant request.

“We are currently trying to rehab the existing trail that we have,” said Commissioner Dan Glotz. “There are a lot of areas that are in dire need of fixing up. So the plan is to mill the existing surface and resurface it and have a nice, brand new trail when we’re all finished. This will be what we currently have down, the three miles.”

There have been talks in the past of extending the trail to the New York state line, but the project county officials are discussing now only addresses the existing trail. E&M Engineers of Bradford, Pa., has provided a preliminary cost estimate for the project totaling $353,420

“We’ll shoot a shot and see what happens,” Cotton said.