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► Trott Brook Trails to Miever 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. <br />.. ....................................................... .............................._ <br />57 City of Elk River - Parks and Recreation Master Plan <br />