CLEVELAND Peninsula AKRON Dalton Canal Fulton Apple Creek Massillon Glenmont Millersburg Mount Vernon Killbuck Danville Galena Centerburg Westerville South London Charleston COLUMBUS Georgesville Xenia Cedarville Corwin Spring Valley Loveland Morrow CINCINNATI Milford Ohio to Erie Trail Spring 2017 Newsletter #55 OTETF Support For Closing the Gap in Madison County The Ohio to Erie Trail corridor. The Commissioners applied for a Clean Board recently donated Ohio grant to help reimburse part of the remaining $7,800 towards the costs. FMCPT paid the property survey, appraisal, construction of approxi- and closing costs. mately 1,600 feet of trail surface on the east side Volunteers have cleared the corridor of brush and of London. Friends of trees, and with the help of the County Engineer’s Madison County Parks & crew, the brush has been chipped. They also hauled Trails Board earmarked away the firewood and the corridor is ready for a $20,000 for the project bulldozer to clear the tree stumps and prepare the and individual donors trail foundation. have donated another FMCPT continues to contact businesses and individ- $1,300 so far. The total ual in Madison County to give them an opportunity cost for this section from to be a part of this Maple Street to Walnut effort. If you would Street will be about like to help fill this gap $78,000. Supporting the in the Ohio to Erie Trail, completion of the trail is you can do so online a major goal of the OTETF Board. at www.fmcpt.com, The Madison County Commissioners purchased or send a check to: the land to start filling in the OTET gap in London. FMCPT, P.O. Box 308, The previous land owner, Kelley Manns, generous- London, Ohio 43140. ly donated about 20% of the property for the trail www.ohiotoerietrail.org facebook.com/OhiotoErie Spring/Summer 2017 Newsletter #55 Galena Progress Supported by OTETF Becoming a Friend of the Trail The group in the photo Galena and Delaware A new program, Friends of below met on a blus- County, the Ohio to Erie the Trail, is being offered tery day last November Trail, and Delaware County to those supporters who to commemmorate the Friends of the Trail, in their want to be rewarded opening of the newest submission for a ODNR and recognized for their sections of trail in the grant. support. When you Village of Galena. Already, Trail visitors will find become a friend of the the Village is ready to several miles of newly trail through our website make even more progress finished trail in this area. (look under Donate), as plans for 1,775 addi- Galena offers the perfect you’ll be offered exclusive tional linear feet of pave- day trip from Columbus discounts throughout the large OTET sticker for free. ment is being planned for with its restaurants and year. Currently, Friends The Friends program has in a project partnership scenic Hoover of the Trail can pre-or- several different giving between the Village of Reservoir! der the new 2017 Trail levels, ranging from $25 to Guide for a $5 discount $1,000. For more informa- and receive a small and tion, go to our website. New OTET Trail Guides Available The all new OTET Tour Guides are available at www.OhiotoErieTrail.com #OH2ERIE for $15. The new guides This string of characters contain updated maps of OTETF Board from 2002 is the official Ohio to Erie the OTET/Ohio Route 1 tag used for social media and are filled with help- Writer Needed for the OTETF posts. Keep your eyes ful information about peeled for a campaign lodging, food, parking, History Book announced on Facebook restrooms and much The OTETF Board is develop a chronological that will reward the best more. Become a Friend of seeking an individual historical story about photo posted tagged OTET and save $5 on your interested in writing a the 26 year-old organi- with #OH2ERIE. The order! short book on the history zation and our success winner will win an official of the Ohio to Erie Trail in creating the longest uring Guide Map Legend To Ohio to Erie1 OTET Trail (OTET) Other Bike OTET jersey, valued at Trail 3 Fund, created in 1991 by recreational trail in the Ohio to Erie Approx. Mileage Trail on Road Bridge Street or Road Horses Permitted Interstate Highwa y River or Creek City , County National ,P State or $100! ark Urban Ed Honton of Columbus, state from Cincinnati to Service Symbol Area s BIKE SHOP occupied TOILETS PARKING The Ohio to Erie Trail travels along lands formerly h WATER Ohio. The work will Cleveland. We imagine ng throug GROCERY ST TRAILHEAD (Includes all by railroads and canals from the Ohio River in Cincinnati, on ORE encircled services GAS STAT ) through Columbus ending at Lake Erie in Cleveland. Bikers ION REST and hikers are able to enjoy this trail while passi AURANT HOTEL quiet woods, lush fields, charming small towns and exciting / MOTEL CAMPGROUND FULL SERVICE d B (Includes all urban centers. Everyone who enjoys nature, bird watchers, B encircled services BED & BREAKF . ) horseback riders, cross-country skiers and runners, will have AST the opportunity to explore the natural beauty of the trail as ICE CREAM SHOP require interviewing that the project will take PICNIC it weaves its way across Ohio. The trail holds excitement an AREA EMERGENCY HIST ORIC SITE adventure to anyone willing to leave the automobile behind CARE BIKE SELF SE RVICE The Ohio to Erie safety or fitness of any of the high Trail Fund does not make any warranty or representation as to th herein for bicycle travel or other recreational use. Routes and desc al Ohioprovided as suggestions. South Centr tions as appropriate. ways, roads, streets, paths or byways depicte Southern Ohio ti Travelers should use caution and exercise safety pr us to Xenia Wear a helmet when traveling by bicycle. past and present Board about a year. Experience Columb e Xenia to Cincinna riptions are merelyd ecau SCR - SC4 members, searching the in publishing is preferred. Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park 281 DARBY CREEK DR S MAIN ST L O N D O N FS MAPLE ALKIRE RD e files of the organization, Contact Lisa Daris, OTET Roberts Pass Camp Chase 1 / OTET 103 Trail/OTET P Camp Chas E Trail/OTET 1ST ST ST GH 1 W HI 1 D R 6 5 N O 53 S L I TH T S W Y A G E O R G E S V I L L E W D I W CENTER ST M reviewing minutes as well Coordinator at ohiotoeri- as photos and maps to [email protected] 2017 OTET Trail Guides Spring/Summer 2017 Newsletter #55 Thank you to our Friends of the Trail! Individual Sustaining Family Janis Comstock-Jones Gaybrielle Gordon James Dunham Joyce Dupont Family Chuck Kutchera Jeff Fenter Jody Dzuranin Family Kim Powers Andrea Jensen Phil Grimm Michael Wallace Andy Johnson Rick Groth Family Jeff Kloss The Dwight Kline Family Kenneth Kramer William & Doris Knuth Family Elijah Lamp Kathleen Lannan Family Beth Morrow Scott Moffitt Family Lesley Page Lee Tracy Family Tristan Stewart Doug Shope Elaine Stien Rick Weber Stephen Weiss David Westman Richard Wilson Spring/Summer 2017 Newsletter #55 118 Graceland Blvd. #146 Non-Profit Columbus, Ohio 43214 Organization U.S. Postage www.ohiotoerietrail.org PAID Coumbus OH Permit 5466 Address Changes: E-mail changes to: [email protected] Telephone Number changes to: 614-918-3636 Cincinnati Honors Honton Through New Sign Visitors to Cincinnati’s regional trails that are Smale Park on the connected, and shows Board of Directors Executive Coordinator Riverfront will soon enjoy a map of all the cities Tom Moffitt, PhD, Butler County, Lisa Daris President this historical and villages Advisory Board sign, designed the OTET Bill Daehler, Franklin County, Vice President William Baker, Holmes County by Bob touches as it Elizabeth Watts, Franklin County, Melodee Kornacker, Franklin OHIO TO ERIE TRAIL County Niedenthal S m a l e R i v e r f r o n t P a r k crosses Ohio. Treasurer The Ohio to Erie Trail (OTET) is a 300 Greg Lashutka, Franklin County 90 mile network of 22 regional trails CLEVELAND stretching from Cincinnati, starting 90 Mary Plumley, Franklin County, here along the Ohio River, to down- Peninsula town Cleveland at Lake Erie. The Ohio AKRON 76 River Trail and the OTET overlap from 71 Dalton Canal Fulton this point east to the Lunken Airport Apple Creek Massillon Trail. From Lunken, the OTET overlaps of Oxford, 77 OTET donors Tom Offut, Lake County Glenmont Millersburg with the Little Miami Scenic Trail for Mount Vernon Killbuck Danville 50 miles. Sunbury/ Galena Centerburg 71 Westerville Secretary Conceived in 1991 by Franklin County South London COLUMBUS 70 Charleston 70 Georgesville engineer and Ohio's first Ohio Depart- Xenia Cedarville ment of Transportation's Bicycle Coor- Spring Valley dinator, Ed Honton, the OTET traverses Corwin 77 71 75 Morrow 14 counties using land which was for Charlie Ruma, Franklin County CINCINNATI Loveland the most part formerly occupied by Milford railroads and canals. Along the way, Ohio. The the OTET passes through rural areas, supported the Wayne Roberts, Madison County farmlands, nature preserves and local parks. At the metropolitan perimeters, meadows and woods give way to 1 urban centers. Everyone has an oppor- Ohio1 to Erie Trail tunity to explore the natural beauty of Jim Schneider, Greene County Ohio as the OTET weaves its way across Regional Trails of the OHIO TO ERIE TRAIL * Cleveland Lakefront Bikeway -- Cleveland * Alum Creek Trail -- Westerville to Columbus the state.