Stage and Rail Trail installs signage themountainmail.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from themountainmail.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Signs officially marking the path of the Stage and Rail Trail, a planned 70-mile cycling trail that closely follows the rail line of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad between Salida and Leadville, were recently erected along CR 371, a big step in a very gradual process to create a long-distance cycling trail in Chaffee and Lake counties.
âWeâre celebrating the end of about a 15-year-process of trying to develop an ambitious regional trail,â said Alan Robinson, the trailâs volunteer project advisor. âItâs a combination of driving on county roads and on state highways and trails through the towns where we can do it, and pieces of the Colorado Midland Railroad and the old Cañon City to Leadville stage road.â
The bridge that spans the Arkansas River immediately east of Johnson Village is one of 46 bridges throughout the state to be named by the Colorado Department of Transportation on this yearâs list of Colorado Preservation, Inc.âs Most Endangered Places.
The nomination represents the first phase of a study of Coloradoâs historical bridges to identify structures CDOT will commit to preserving in place.
The bridge that carries U.S. Highway 24-285 from Trout Creek Pass over the Arkansas to Johnson Village, a Pratt deck truss bridge built in 1937, is one of two bridges named in the list in Chaffee County. The other also crosses the river north of Salida on Colo. 291.
Larry Lawrence, Nestlé Waters North America regional manager for the western region, presented commissioners with Nestlé’s 2020 annual report during Chaffee County’s regular meeting Tuesday.
Local bridges included in historic listing themountainmail.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from themountainmail.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.