GOCO grant will pay for new local trail
Story By: Bea Karnes
Source: KOAA
A trail connecting Colorado Springs to Manitou Springs will be built using lottery funds. The Great Outdoors Colorado grant for $600,000 will create an east-west recreation and transportation corridor linking popular parks and open spaces, including Red Rock Canyon, Garden of the Gods, and trailheads leading to Pikes Peak.
Construction will begin next spring. The Midland-Creekwalk Trail will run approximately 2.5 miles and will link the Midland Trail from its end point at 21st Street in Colorado Springs to the Creekwalk Trail at Fields Park in Manitou Springs. The trail will be paved, ADA accessible, equipped with four pedestrian bridges, and offer connections to existing trailheads.
Great Outdoors Colorado receives $53 million annually from Lottery proceeds, and directs those funds to projects that protect and enhance Colorado’s parks, wildlife, trails, rivers and open space. Since 1994, projects in El Paso County have been awarded more than $39 million in GOCO grants.
