Miami Valley RailTrails Newsletter
September 2003

Support Ohio Senate Bill 80 

Dear Miami Valley RailTrails List Readers - 23 September 2003.  It's Fall! We only have a few good weeks of trail use left. But there is news in the Miami Valley about new multi-use trails. So read on.  

New on Miami Valley RailTrails site. 
First I'm going to tell you about what is new on the Miami Valley RailTrails site. 

• Updates to website.
  
  • Great Miami River Trail  - I've added a new page to the website for the Great Miami River Trail in Miami County. The page has description and new photos of the Phase I Trail. 
    
  • Great Connection construction   This trail will be 28 miles long when finished from Crain's Run Metro Park south to Hamilton. The new 2.3 mile section  is being built in Middletown. See the page for more information. 
    
  • Wolf Creek Recreation Trail  - New trail segment in downtown Dayton. See my new pictures and trail description. 
    
  • Simon Kenton Trail - I've added a new page to the site to show you the new trail.  I took a lot of pictures of this new 9.4 mile trail that starts at Buck Creek Trail and ends at State Route 55 just South of Urbana.  

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

• Simon Kenton Trail - On Saturday 27 September at 10 AM at the Clark/Champaign County line the new trail was dedicated. The ceremony was held on County Line Road at the Park & Ride on the trail. You can get there by driving up US Route 68 from Springfield and turn left at County Line Road. Or you can look at my map of the area  
  
  

• Great Miami River Trail - This Summer the Task Force in Miami County opened the first 1.6 miles and the first of seven planned sections of the trail. I have not yet seen it but there are photos of it on the new webpage. 
  
  

• Wolf Creek Recreation Trail   This Summer Five Rivers MetroParks built a 1 mile section of trail on the levee along the Wolf Creek where it empties into the Great Miami River in downtown Dayton. The trail connects with the Great Miami River Recreation Trail . At the other end of the new construction the trail comes up out of the river and joins an existing 2 mile trail along James. H. McGee Blvd. Eventually the trail will be connected to the existing 13 mile section of Wolf Creek Recreation Trail that runs from Trotwood to Verona. 
  
  

• Little Miami Scenic Trail - More information on construction from Milford South towards Lunken airport and the Ohio River. This information comes from Hamilton County Parks Department. The trail is being extended south to Lunken Airport. The trail is expected to be open to Clear Creek Park in Anderson Township by 2005. The Hamilton County Park District has not acquired all of the land necessary to get from Clear Creek Park to Lunken Airport so a scheduled date cannot be forecast. After the trail reaches Lunken Airport the trail will have to be built South from there to the Ohio River and Cincinnati. Click on the link for the current schedule. 
  

That's it for September 2003. Construction is about over for 2003. 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.  I will probably send you a newsletter every other month during the Winter unless I find out something I think you'll want to know about. 

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