Trail will connect to
the Pumpkinvine north of U.S. 20
By Dick Cook
After years of planning and
fundraising, the Friends of the Middlebury Parks have signed a contract with
Niblock Excavating and Asphalt to build the Ridge Run Trail system. The trail
will connect That Pretty Place Bed and Breakfast, the Greencroft Middlebury
Retirement Community, the Essenhaus campus and the Middlebury Schools campus
with the Pumpkinvine Nature Trail.
Construction
was to have started last fall, but due to Niblock’s heavy construction schedule
for other projects, construction is now scheduled to begin in spring 2017,
according to Jacob Hoeger, Niblock spokesperson. The new trail will have an
asphalt surface, be 10-feet wide and connect to the Pumpkinvine just north of
the tunnel under U.S. 20. The spurs to Greencroft Middlebury and the Essenhaus will
be 10-feet wide, and the Greencroft spur will be packed stone.
The Ridge Run Trail project was made possible from the support of the
members of the Friends of the Middlebury Parks organization, grants from the
State of Indiana’s Place Based Investment Fund and the Community Foundation of
Elkhart County, donations from the Corson Family Foundation, the Das Dutchman
Essenhaus and Greencroft Middlebury; as well as contributions from over 100
individuals, families, civic clubs, family foundations and businesses.
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