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Status: Planned
County: Allen
City: Fort
Wayne
Endpoints:
North - Fernhill Ave., Franke Park
South- Rivergreenway at Lawton Park
Trailheads:
Connections: Will
connect to the Rivergreenway at Lawton Park, along the St. Marys River.
Activities:
biking
walking
Surface:
asphalt
Length: 2.6
miles
Descrption: In
November of 2007, the City of Fort Wayne received a federal Transportation
Enhancement award of $967,167 to help fund the construction this trail
from Lawton Park to Fernhill Avenue with a spur to Franke Park and the
Fort Wayne Children's Zoo. The 12' asphalt trail will be constructed on
the former Fort Wayne, Jackson & Saginaw (later called the New York Central)
railroad corridor from Fourth Street to Fernhill Avenue. The trail spur
to Franke Park and the Children's Zoo will be 10' wide and will run along
the south side of Franke Park Drive from the railroad corridor. The name
is derived from the historic nickname for a steam locomotive, which is
"pufferbelly."
The Pufferbelly Trail will provide connections to five northwest neighborhoods,
Centlivre Apartments, the Children's Zoo, Franke Park, Vesey Park, Franke
Park Elementary School, Science Central, Imagine MASTer Academy and Northside
High School. In addition, the residents in the five neighborhoods and
Centlivre Apartments along the Pufferbelly Trail will be connected to
the 23-mile Rivergreenway network. Trail construction should begin
in 2010.
Future Plans: The
Pufferbelly Trail is one segment of a State Visionary Trail, dubbed the
Upstate Indiana Trail, that will ultimately be 80-miles long, running
from Pokagon State Park in Angola to Ouabache Sate Park in Bluffton.
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