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55 City of Elk River - Parks and Recreation Master Plan Chapter 5: How We Get There <br /> ▶Trott Brook Trails to Kliever Lake Fields/Marsh <br /> ▶Utilize Klievers Marsh Park <br />2. Make the existing system more usable and improve the user experience. <br />Strategies: <br />• Add lighting in key areas. Begin with trailheads, parking lots, and high-use <br />commuter corridors. <br />• Provide safe road crossings. <br />• Add on-road bike facilities to supplement the trail system where opportunities <br />allow. <br />• Extend fall, winter, and spring use of trails by plowing designated winter <br />routes and paved trails within parks. <br />• Improve safety in locations with dangerous conditions due to traffic volumes, <br />truck traffic, curves, topography, speed, or width. <br />• Develop trail loops in existing neighborhood and community parks. <br />3. Improve signage. <br /> ▶Provide standardized wayfinding kiosks at trailheads <br /> ▶Provide wayfinding signage; priorities include: <br /> ·Connections to/from the Great Northern Trail. <br /> ·Downtown area. <br /> ·Link between Great Northern Trail and Main Street. <br />4. Create Connections to the Great Northern Trail. <br />Strategies: <br />• Extend the Great Northern Trail to Main Street and the Mississippi River. <br /> ▶This may include on- and off-road bicycle facilities, including improved <br />safety measures for on-road bicycling on Main Street. <br />• Connect the neighborhoods on the east and west side of Highway 169 to the <br />Great Northern Trail. <br /> ▶Potential future crossings include 221st Street (future road extension). <br /> ▶Future Road Connections through the mining area at 205th and 193rd. <br /> ▶Trails on 221st, Ranch Road, Meadowvale and 196th. <br />• Consider grade-separated crossings, such as the one at 189th, when <br />connecting across significant barriers. <br /> ▶Highway 169 <br /> ▶Highway 10 <br /> ▶Railroad tracks <br />5. Extend the Great Northern Trail north. <br />Strategies: <br />• Coordinate with Sherburne County, Livonia Township and the Cities of <br />Zimmerman and Princeton to extend the trail north.