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Celebrating Place. Celebrating Place. How trails embrace How trails embrace our environment, our environment, celebrate history, celebrate history, and connect to our and connect to our community. community. Jeffrey R. Kerr, ASLA Floyd Browne Group

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Celebrating Place. Celebrating Place. How trails embrace our How trails embrace our environment, celebrate environment, celebrate history, and connect to history, and connect to

our community.our community.

Jeffrey R. Kerr, ASLAFloyd Browne Group

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Signature ParkBeachwood, Ohio

Trails can be more than lineal corridors with beginnings and ends.

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But trail systems can be more than that.

Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail Peninsula Train Station

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What makes a trail a destination?

Cascade LocksAkron, Ohio

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They can link us They can link us to our history.to our history.

Historical Portage Path

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They can let They can let us explore us explore

our heritage.our heritage.Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

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They can link us to our history.

or to our built or to our built environment.environment.

Canal ReservationCleveland Metroparks

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or just remind us of our past.

Maple Highlands TrailGeauga County

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They can connect us They can connect us to our neighborhoods.to our neighborhoods.

Freedom Secondary TrailTallmadge, Ohio

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West Creek ReservationCleveland Metroparks

They can reveal special places that are sometimes hidden.

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They can allow us to preserve our transportation heritage

Niles Bikeway

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They can let you They can let you see things from see things from

a different a different perspective.perspective.

Honda Wetland

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or sometimes just to or sometimes just to get a little closer.get a little closer.

Sippo Lake Education Center and TrailSippo Lake Education Center and TrailStark CountyStark County

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They can teach us about They can teach us about the complexity of our the complexity of our

environment.environment.

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Or the simple Or the simple enjoyment of it…enjoyment of it…

North Fork TrailNorth Fork TrailBath TownshipBath Township

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They can promote alternative transportation.

Cascade LocksAkron, Ohio

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or just provide or just provide places to get out places to get out

and exercise.and exercise.

Sand Run TrailMetro Parks, Serving Summit County

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They don’t always need be on land.

Cuyahoga RiverCleveland, Ohio

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They can help reclaim abandoned places.

Former B.F. Goodrich Manufacturing ComplexAkron, Ohio

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They can introduce us to important natural resources.

Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath TrailCuyahoga Valley National Park

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So let’s think how trails can make connections So let’s think how trails can make connections with our environment, history, and culture.with our environment, history, and culture.

Treadway CreekCleveland

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Celebrating Place. How trails embrace our environment,

celebrate history, and connect to our community.