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Metro Districts to improve part of the Highline Canal Trail
The section of the Highline Canal Trail from where the trail crosses Marcy Gulch near Town Center Drive west to Santa Fe Drive is slated for improvement this summer.
By By:Tamra Monahan
The section of the Highline Canal Trail from where the trail crosses Marcy Gulch near Town Center Drive west to Santa Fe Drive is slated for improvement this summer.
The Metro Districts' Parks and Open Space department will spend approximately $37,000 to put down an 8-foot wide layer of crusher fine gravel and a railing on both sides of an existing pedestrian bridge on the trail as it crosses over Marcy Gulch later this summer.
According to Parks and Open Space Director Tom Hoby, the money for this new project is left over from the Highline Canal Trailhead project, a joint venture between the Metro Districts, which contributed $32,614; Douglas County, which contributed $44,865; and South Suburban Metropolitan Recreation and Park District and the city of Littleton, which each contributed $50,000.
The trailhead, which has been open since last fall, consists of a 35-space parking lot just east of where the Highline Canal crosses County Line Road west of Broadway and an access road from County Line Road. When the project was completed, Hoby said the Metro Districts had about $27,000 left over from money allocated for its share of the trailhead project from the Metro Districts' Conservation Trust Fund and $10,000 left over from a Great Outdoors Colorado grant.
Money from the Conservation Trust Fund comes from lottery proceeds earmarked for community park projects, so Hoby and his staff asked the Metro Districts' board of directors for permission to spend the $37,000 to continue the Highline Trail surfacing project which began in 2001.
During that year, the Metro Districts improved the Highline Canal Trail with a crusher fine surface from Marcy Gulch east to the C-470 underpass.
In written communication to the Metro Districts' board of directors, Hoby explained that in the future, the Colorado Department of Transportation will be improving Santa Fe Drive, including a crossing for the Highline Canal Trail. At that time, the Metro Districts will most likely explore additional grants that will allow the Parks and Open Space department to continue the crusher fine gravel surfacing along the trail west of Santa Fe Drive.
The Metro Districts' board of directors approved the reallocation of the $37,000 to the trail resurfacing project, which should be completed by the end of this summer.
The Metro Districts' Parks and Open Space department will spend approximately $37,000 to put down an 8-foot wide layer of crusher fine gravel and a railing on both sides of an existing pedestrian bridge on the trail as it crosses over Marcy Gulch later this summer.
According to Parks and Open Space Director Tom Hoby, the money for this new project is left over from the Highline Canal Trailhead project, a joint venture between the Metro Districts, which contributed $32,614; Douglas County, which contributed $44,865; and South Suburban Metropolitan Recreation and Park District and the city of Littleton, which each contributed $50,000.
The trailhead, which has been open since last fall, consists of a 35-space parking lot just east of where the Highline Canal crosses County Line Road west of Broadway and an access road from County Line Road. When the project was completed, Hoby said the Metro Districts had about $27,000 left over from money allocated for its share of the trailhead project from the Metro Districts' Conservation Trust Fund and $10,000 left over from a Great Outdoors Colorado grant.
Money from the Conservation Trust Fund comes from lottery proceeds earmarked for community park projects, so Hoby and his staff asked the Metro Districts' board of directors for permission to spend the $37,000 to continue the Highline Trail surfacing project which began in 2001.
During that year, the Metro Districts improved the Highline Canal Trail with a crusher fine surface from Marcy Gulch east to the C-470 underpass.
In written communication to the Metro Districts' board of directors, Hoby explained that in the future, the Colorado Department of Transportation will be improving Santa Fe Drive, including a crossing for the Highline Canal Trail. At that time, the Metro Districts will most likely explore additional grants that will allow the Parks and Open Space department to continue the crusher fine gravel surfacing along the trail west of Santa Fe Drive.
The Metro Districts' board of directors approved the reallocation of the $37,000 to the trail resurfacing project, which should be completed by the end of this summer.
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