State Recreational Trails Program Grants Awarded

State Recreational Trails Program Grants

The Iowa Transportation Commission also approved funding for 13 recreational trails across Iowa as part of the State Recreational Trails Program. The State Recreational Trails Program was created in 1988 to establish recreational trails in Iowa for public use. This funding is available to cities, counties, state agencies, and nonprofit organizations through an annual application-based program.

The grantees, trail projects and funding totals are listed below:

* ALLAMAKEE COUNTY AND ALLAMAKEE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $750,000 for the Allamakee County Mississippi River bike trail
* BLACK HAWK COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD: $250,000 for the Cedar Valley Nature Trail bridge at McFarlane Park
* CITY OF DES MOINES: $73,474 for the Des Moines River Regional Trail, Phase 1
* CITY OF DES MOINES: $750,000 for the Principal Riverwalk Recreational Trail (per direct legislative appropriation)
* IOWA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES: $262,500 to fund the Iowa DNR AmeriCorps trail crew
* CITY OF IOWA CITY: $281,000 for the Iowa River Corridor Trail connection – Sand Lake
* CITY OF SIOUX CITY AND IOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: $128,000 for the Lewis and Clark Historic Riverfront Trail
* LINN COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD: $500,000 for the Pinicon Ridge Trail (per direct legislative appropriation)
* DALLAS COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD: $484,995 for the Raccoon River Valley Trail addition – Herndon to Waukee
* DICKINSON COUNTY TRAILS BOARD: $525,000 for railbanking purchase of IANW Railroad
* WARREN COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD: $107,271 for Summerset Trail flood repairs
* CITY OF DECORAH AND WINNESHIEK COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD: $300,000 for Trout Run Trail – box culverts and bridge project
* NORTHEAST IOWA RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT INC. AND IOWA DNR’S FISHERIES: $75,000 for Trout Run Trail – Decorah Fish Hatchery’s interpretive center restroom facility