Miami Valley RailTrails Newsletter
June 2004

Hello MVRT Members - It's 30 June 2004 and I have  news for you. I have been adding information and new pictures to the website. 

• Additions to Website - I have bee revising the website and adding more current information and new pictures to several pages. 
  • Creekside Trail For example I added new pictures of the two tunnels on the Creekside Trail  and new pictures of several staging areas while I was adding a table of all facilities, parking, restrooms and water on each trail. See below for more on this). 
  • Creekside Recreation Trail - I added more photos on this trail as well as the new table mentioned above that I am adding to all pages. 
  • Xenia Station to Yellow Springs section - I have completely revised this section with all new pictures and descriptions of the trail section from Xenia Stations to the every popular Yellow Springs. 
    
    
• Ohio Bicycle Events Calendar - (Reprint from May) Every year the good people at the Ohio Bicycle Federation prepare a wonderful calendar of all bicycling events in Ohio. The link will take you to their site where you can order a printed copy (small donation requested) , peruse the web version or download an Adobe Acrobat file copy. 
  
  
• Prairie Grass Trail Completed in Madison County -    The 10.4 mile Cedarville to London section of the Ohio To Erie Trail  was dedicated on Saturday 26 June 2004. We rode the trail the following Tuesday and the trail still had paving going on. Also the signage was not complete. By the time you read this I hope to have the "Prairie Grass Trail" web-page completed updated with new pictures and notes for your use. They and other planners in Franklin (Columbus) county hope that that this trail will connect with new trails being built near Columbus in about three years. The Friends of Madison County Parks and Trails hope to have this trail complete to Franklin County this year if funding is provided  Eventually the trail will be completed to Battelle-Darby Creek MetroPark in Georgesville and then on to Columbus. 
  
  

• Southwest Ohio's Waterways and Pathways  - In June my website was recognized by being added to the 2004 Edition of Southwest Ohio's Waterways and Pathways. The 32 page tabloid sized document printed on newsprint is to be available at cycling events throughout Ohio until the 16,000 copies is gone. I suggest you try to get yourself a copy. The link above is the "Friends of Madison County Parks and Trails" and shows the front page. It also has information about their ad in the journal. My quarter page ad is on page 14 and here's what it looks like below:

• Revision to website-   I was contacted by the Ohio Office of the Rails-To-Trails organization. They requested more information on the staging areas for the trails where you can park your car while using the trail. They also wanted more information about restrooms and the availability of water. I received a small compliment when the staff person told me that she had found more information about this topic in my website than on others. Anyway. I am reworking every web-page on the website to revise and add more information about parking, water and restrooms. On each page I am adding a table with detailed information. For example see my Little Miami Scenic Trail Xenia To Spring Valley Section page. 
  
  

Regards to all, 

Thomas J. Recktenwalt
Webmaster
Miami Valley RailTrails
http://www.miamivalleytrails.org  

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, roller-bladeing, birding and cycling and in some cases horseback riding . You see more wildlife from one of our trails. 
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