Miami 2 Miami Trail

Miami 2 Miami Trail
(In Planning and Development)

What Is It?	New Maps	Pictures of the trail sections
Updates To This Webpage	Construction Updates

Updates To This Webpage : Here is where I will update this page, with what new information I have.

November 2008 - I added a map of the new Port Union Gilmore Ponds Historic Canal Trail to the information about it below.
September 2008 - I have added to the New Maps below with the help of Mason resident, Mr. Mitch Evans. He sent me back the "Map "C" marked up in orange and blue to show the new trails (orange) and the new sidewalks (blue). I have added captions to Map "C" and have added an orange line and caption to Map "A" to show the Port Union-Gilmore Ponds Historic Canal Trail that was dedicated 30 April. I have added Maps "A", "B" and "C" below

Miami 2 Miami Trail: This trail is being developed in Butler and Warren Counties by the Miami 2 Miami Coalition (M2MC) with the help and assistance of the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI). This proposed 84 mile trail will consist of 10 foot wide separate trails, 5 foot wide bike lanes on roadways and signed shared roadways. The trail will connect the Little Miami Scenic Trail in South Lebanon to the Great Miami River Recreation Trail near Hamilton . It will cross the Little Miami River using the old double overhead span railroad bridge that is a part of the Lebanon Countryside Trail. The trail will also connect to the planned Mill Creek Greenway Trail that will travel along the mill Creek North from Cincinnati.

The Miami 2 Miami Trail will be developed by the M2M Coalition which include the following organizations: Butler County Engineer’s Office. Butler County Planning Department, Butler Soil and Water Conservation District, Canal Society of Ohio, Deerfield Township, City of Fairfield, The Great Miami Path, City of Hamilton, Izaak Walton League, City of Lebanon, Liberty Township, City of Mason, MetroParks of Butler County, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI), Union/West Chester Township Historical Society, Warren County Engineer’s Office, Warren County Park Board, Warren County Regional Planning Commission and West Chester Township

Feasibility Study : This webpage will be used to apprise you of the planning and development of the M2M trail including construction news. The preliminary study was released 31 October 2002 . If you are interested please click on the title below. It will take you to the OKI website where you can download a copy. of the 88 page report: " Miami 2 Miami Connection - Feasibility Study" (8Mb).

Updates To This Webpage -

November 2008 - I added a map of the new Port Union Gilmore Ponds Historic Canal Trail to the information about it below.
September 2008 - I have added to the New Maps below with the help of Mason resident, Mr. Mitch Evans. He sent me back the "Map "C" marked up in orange and blue to show the new trails (orange) and the new sidewalks (blue). I have added captions to Map "C" and have added an orange line and caption to Map "A" to show the Port Union-Gilmore Ponds Historic Canal Trail that was dedicated 30 April. I have added Maps "A", "B" and "C" below

Construction Updates: In this section of the page, I will post what portions of the trail have been built, or are about to be built.

"Mason, Deerfield push bike paths" - (07/24/08) An article appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer 24 July 2008 titled: "Mason, Deerfield push bike paths." The article spoke of a trail dedicated in July by Deerfield Township that runs 2 miles along Socialville-Foster Road. The article went on to talk about a 3,700 foot trail that the City of Mason had build starting at David Lane in July. It runs West to the existing trail in Corwin M. Nixon Park that lead to the Mason Municipal Center and Mason High School. In the New Maps section below, I have annotated the maps with dotted lines and captions to show you where the trails are. See Map "C" (below).

Port Union Gilmore Ponds Historic Canal Trail - (04/30/08) An article appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer on April 30, 2008 titled "Trail will Connect Warren and Butler" that announced the dedication of this portion of this trail called the Port Union-Gilmore Ponds Historic Canal Trail. The 2.93 mile trail segment runs West from Route 747 in Port Union to State Route 4 along the old Miami-Erie Canal in Butler County. Click Here to see the article in the Hamilton Journal-News that describes it. The trail is planned to be built West to the Gilmore Ponds Interpretive Preserve in Fairfield. See Map "A" (below)
At right you can see a map that shows the existing trail in red. At the right side of the map is SR-747 running North and South. At the far left of the map is where the trail will be continued along the old canal to the Gilmore Ponds Interpretive Preserve.

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Source: Westchester Township

"Paved Trail opens path to Liberty Twp. Parks - (9/16/07) - An article about a part of the Miami-2-Maimi built in Liberty Township.

Pictures of The Trail Sections - In this section of the page, I will post pictures of the trail sections as they become available. What I have now is a Yahoo Map of the Port Union-Gilmore Ponds Historic Canal Trail only.

At right I have a Yahoo Maps image of the Port Union-Gilmore Ponds Historic Canal Trail. Please click on the photo or click on the link above. At right in the image (East) you can see Port Union. You can see a railroad track running Southeast to Northwest on the image. The Miami-Erie Canal is just South of it and parallel to it. At right (West) you can see Gilmore Ponds. The trail stops just before the Ponds at State Route 4. If you click on the maps below, this segment of trail is on "Part A" of the map just South of the Butler County Regional Airport that is shown on the map.

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Source: Yahoo Maps

Maps Section Below you can see on the maps where the trail starts in Hamilton and Fairfield Township at the Great Miami River Recreation Trail to the west and runs East through West Chester Township, the City of Mason and Union Township until it joins the Little Miami Scenic Trail near South Lebanon. I recently added the detail maps "A", "B" & "C".

Click on the Map thumbnail at right to see the overall image of the planned trail. This image is from the Miami 2 Miami Connection Feasibility Study mentioned above. If you need the report or documents from it, write me. This is an overall map showing Maps "A", "B" and "C."		Photo OKI
Click Here or on Map "A" below to see a larger version of the left section of the map above. I have annotated it with the trail sections that have been built in orange and the sidewalks in blue.	Click Here or on Map "B" below to see a larger version of the middle section of the map above. I have not marked it with the trails built since I have no information about this area.		Click Here or on Map "C" below to see a larger version of the right section of the map above. I have annotated it with the trail sections that have been built in orange and the sidewalks in blue.
Map "A"	Map "B"		Map "C"

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