The Michigan Department of Transportation has awarded $1.4 million in federal transportation enhancement funds to complete the paving of the Fred Meijer Heartland Trail, making the hiking and biking pathway one of the largest in the country.
It will be used to pave the final phase of the trail from Edmore to Riverdale with a trailhead to Edmore, completing a 40-mile path from Alma to Greenville. Another section will link Sidney to Lake Road in Greenville. The route traverses through woodlands, wetlands, farmland, small towns and rolling hills in Montcalm and Gratiot Counties.
According to excerpts from the story:
FFMHT was awarded an additional $650,000 in federal grant money to purchase 16 miles of former railroad from Greenville to Lowell. The future rail-trail, which will be paved this summer, will connect to the Fred Meijer Heartland Trail, the 42-mile Fred Meijer Clinton-Ionia-Shiawassee Trail and the Mid-Michigan Railroad corridor, which travels 15 miles from Ionia to Lowell.
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