Miami Valley RailTrails Newsletter
July 2003

Dear Miami Valley RailTrails List Readers - 27 July 2003. It's "High Summer" and many of you are doing a lot of outdoor activities including using our large, and growing, trail system. 

New Trail Construction - Here I get to tell you about what trails are being built for your cycling (walking, running and rollerblading pleasure). 

• New Trail Construction in Piqua - The City of Piqua has been working this Summer on what they call "Phase Five" of the construction of their Piqua Linear Park. The current 4.5 mile trail extension runs North from downtown Piqua along the Miami River levee starting at Lock Nine Park and will end at the Water Plant connecting to the Hydraulic Canal Path that runs North from French Park along the Hydraulic Canal to the water plant. When finished this Summer Piqua will have built a loop from downtown north to the water plant and then south from there along the Hydraulic Canal Path to French Park which connects to the East and West section of the Piqua Linear Path. The City of Piqua's Website  has great photos of pre construction and construction. Bravo! City of Piqua!
  
  

• "Miami River trail is starting to take shape"  - That's what the Dayton Daily News used as their headline. As you remember from last month the first section was dedicated in Concord Township on the route of the old Miami-Erie Trail from Dye Mille Road to the Monroe Township line. Last month they received an additional $50,000 grant to work on a river bridge near State Route 202. This will continue the trail from Dye Mill Road to Troy. The group building the trail has decided on the trails' direction north from Troy to Piqua and they have either bought the right-of-way in the area or have secured control of it. Plans are being made to extend North from Troy to Piqua. Going South the planners are working on the third phase of the trail to Tipp City. Eventually the trail will extend from Five Rivers MetroParks (Montgomery County) Taylorsville MetroPark through Miami County and ending in Shelby County. When finished the trail will provide connectivity North from the existing trail system in Montgomery, Greene, Clark and  Champaign Counties. 
  
  

That's it for July 2003. Construction is continuing on several trails. If you find out something about trail construction don't keep it to yourself. Tell me and then I'll tell all my readers. Keep in touch to learn more about our continually expanding trail system.   

This is a repeat from last month.  I noticed on the MSN web page that I use to mail these emails to you that a lot of you are not having your emails from me delivered to your home mailbox. The way that works is you have to go to the website to see if I have sent out a monthly newsletter. It might be easier for you if you go up to the website and change your preferences to having these emails delivered directly to your home mailbox. That way you don’t have to look for these emails; they are sent direct to whatever email address you specify. I can't do this for your account. You have to change your pretences to "Deliver to my mailbox." 

If you find these newsletters and my Miami Valley RailTrails website of use to you, pass the information on to your friends and neighbors who might enjoy our wonderful system of multi-use trails in Southwest Ohio. They are wonderful for walking, running, bladeing, birding and cycling. You see more wildlife from one of our trails. 
All of my newsletters are posted to my website at the same time I send you this text version. The URL for your use is: http://www.miamivalleytrails.org/join_our_mailing_list.htm 

Tom Recktenwalt
Miami Valley Rail Trails
http://www.miamivalleytrails.org