EUCLID, Ohio — Cleveland Metroparks has been busy in recent years planning and building marquee trails and park amenities along Cleveland’s lakefront, on the city’s West Side, and in southern portions of Cuyahoga County.
Now, the regional park agency serving Greater Cleveland has progress to announce on trails and parks on the East Side of the county.
Metroparks held a groundbreaking for the first section of a four-phase project to extend the Euclid Creek Greenway north from the southern portion of the Euclid Creek Reservation to the reservation’s northern section, which includes the Euclid Beach, Villa Angela, and Wildwood parks on the Cleveland lakefront.
The first phase of construction, along with a planned second phase, will bring the all-purpose trail north to Chardon Road about a quarter mile north of Euclid Avenue by the summer of 2023.
The project will include reforestation and enhancements to the 17-acre former site of the Euclid School District’s Central Middle School on the north side of Euclid Avenue, which has reverted to Metroparks’ ownership after decades in which it was owned by the school district.
In a second event, October 27 at 10:30 a.m., Metroparks will hold a ribbon cutting marking the completion of the mile-long Eastern Ledge Trail within the Euclid Creek Reservation. The event will take place at the Welsh Woods Picnic Area.
The new Eastern Ledge trail provides new access to the southern portion of the Euclid Creek Reservation, where Metroparks added 63 acres in 2019.
The $300,000 project includes a new pedestrian bridge over Euclid Creek, connecting the Welsh Woods Picnic Area to the eastern side of the gorge, where an overlook offers panoramic views to the west.
The announcements also follow a raft of recently completed or ongoing projects either led by Metroparks or involving the agency as a partner. They include:
– The 2021 completion of the $6 million, 2-mile Red Line Greenway on Cleveland’s West Side.
The 2021 completion of the $6 million Wendy Park Bridge, joining Wendy Park on Whiskey Island to Cleveland’s Ohio City neighbourhood, plus the associated, $3 million Whiskey Island Trail.
– The 2021 completion of the $1.5 million, 25-acre Brighton Park in Old Brooklyn.
– The 2021 completion of the five-mile, $54 million section of the Towpath Trail in Cleveland. The project was undertaken in collaboration with Cuyahoga County, the City of Cleveland, the nonprofit Canalway Partners, and NOACA, the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency.
– The recent launch of a $5.75 million project to create a shovel-ready design for the CHEERS project, which will add 70 to 80 acres of new parkland on Cleveland’s East Side lakefront. CHEERS stands for Cleveland Harbor Eastern Embayment Resiliency Strategy. Metroparks is undertaking the project with the Port of Cleveland, the City of Cleveland, and other partners.
“Building better connections between community amenities including the lake, our parks, and our neighbourhoods has been a priority for the City of Euclid,’’ she said in a statement provided by Metroparks. “We truly appreciate the longstanding partnership and investment by the Cleveland Metroparks.”
While building the first two sections of the Euclid Creek Greenway extension, Metroparks will develop a plan to complete the next 1.5 miles in phases III and IV of the project, which will bring the greenway north to the lakefront.
In late 2021, Cleveland Metroparks was awarded $950,000 by the U.S. Department of Transportation to advance the planning and design of four trail and bicycle projects on Cleveland’s East Side including phases III and IV of the Euclid Creek Greenway.
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