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Status: Open
County: Lake
City: Hammond, Highland,
Griffith, Schererville, Crown Point
Endpoints:
North- Sibley Street and Hohman Avenue, Hammond
South- Lake County Courthouse, Crown Point
Trailheads:
-parking at 93rd Street in Crown Point
Connections:
Activities:
walking
biking
rollerblading
Surface:
asphalt
Length: 9.5
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.
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