Bike Trail at Armleder Park
 

A major link opens today in the effort to make the Tri-State more
accessible to bicyclists.

The Hamilton County Park District cut the ribbon today on a new, 1.1 mile
paved trail. It connects Armleder Park on Wooster Pike to the loop around
Lunken. Angenette Levy has details on the project. "It speaks toward the
future. One of our goals as a park district is to connect people to
nature, and trails are an excellent way to do that, and to connect people
to each other and obviously it serves as a great metaphor it's a
connection to the Lunken bike path."

A project to extend the Little Miami Trail toward Armleder is already
funded and should begin construction next year.

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New portion of Great Miami River trail to open
 

FAIRFIELD TWP. — The newest portion of the of the Great Miami River
Recreation Trail is expected to open in Butler County this week.

County officials will dedicate the bike/hike trail at Rentschler Forest
MetroPark Monday. The path should be open to the public by the weekend,
said David Fehr, the county’s director of development.

The 10-foot-wide trail will head west along Canal Road and ends in
Hamilton, where city officials haven’t begun their portion because of
funding issues and an ongoing sewer project along the trail there.

Both projects are part of the 90-mile recreation trail that stretches from
Fairfield to Piqua.

A new parking lot was built along Canal Road just west of Allison Avenue
as part of the county project.

The opening is a big deal for Butler County, according to Fehr.

“We’re kind of the weak link now,” Fehr said. “ Now it feels like we
finally got over the hump, and we’re looking over to the northern part of
(Hamilton) and the county and getting it up to Middletown.”

The two-mile stretch was funded through a $500,000 Clean Ohio Trails Fund
grant and a donation of $578,776 from the Hamilton Community Foundation.

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