 Professional trail builder Eddie Walsh and Edward Goodell (Executive Director of the New York–New Jersey Trail Conference) oversaw and coordinated the construction of a paved trail coming off Bear Mountain.That portion of the trail is composed of 800 steps made of slabs of granite followed by over a mile of walkway supported by stone crib walls with boulders called gargoyles lining the path.The project took four years, cost roughly $1 million, and was executed by about 700 volunteers.