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Status: Open

County: Lake

City: Highland, Griffith, Schererville, Crown Point

Endpoints:
North- Little Calumet River, Highland
South- Lake County Courthouse, Crown Point

Trailheads:
-parking at 93rd Street in Crown Point

Connections:

Activities:
walking
biking
rollerblading

Surface:
asphalt

Length: 11.3 miles

Descrption: Like its users, the Erie-L is a trail of many personalities. The southern portion of the trail, built along a grassy right-of-way of unusually enormous width, passes through tranquil fields, wetlands and neighborhoods. Trail designers took advantage of the extra space and gave the asphalt a tight, wavy, sinusoidal pattern, a unique twist on the typically straight or mildly arced course of rail-trails. Beautiful new trailheads adorned with gazebos, benches and painted brick surfacing invite unplanned stops. Toward Griffith and Highland, the trail becomes more of a busy neighborhood fixture, passing several schools, the old town centers, crossing active railroads and multi-lane streets. The trail ends unceremoniously to the north in a corner of Highland near I-94 amidst a string of soaring electric towers disappearing into the horizon.

Manager:
Highland Parks & Rec
Griffith Parks & Rec
Lake County Parks & Rec
Merrillville Parks & Rec
Calumet Citizens for Connecting Communities

Future Plans: Future connections are planned to the Erie Trail in Hammond, Oak Savannah Trail, Pennsy Greenway, and Veterans Memorial Trail.

This trail is a planned segment of the cross-state American Discovery Trail.

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