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Construction Updates
Bike & Hike: Brandywine Bypass | County Home | Nature Realm
Freedom Secondary | Liberty Park | Towpath Trail
Trail Closings
Updated February 19, 2010. For more information, call the administrative offices at 330-867-5511, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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Bike & Hike Trail: Brandywine Road bypass
Planning continues for this one-mile re-route of the Bike & Hike Trail. When completed, the scenic Brandywine Falls will be an attraction on this section of trail. Two substantial milestones were achieved in 2008. First, the environmental assessment was completed and approved by the National Park Service. Second, an agreement was executed between Metro Parks and Cuyahoga Valley National Park, clearing the way for engineering and construction. Engineering may be complete in 2010 and construction may begin in 2010-11.
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County Home Property
Engineering is underway for improvements to the newest addition to Munroe Falls Metro Park. Summit County transferred this 287-acre property to Metro Parks in 2007. Construction of improvements should begin sometime in 2010 and will include a parking lot, two-mile hiking trail, a picnic shelter, restrooms and transforming an old agricultural field into a meadow featuring native plants.
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F.A. Seiberling Nature Realm
The visitors center will reopen the first day of spring: Saturday, March 20, 2010. The building was closed in 2009 as crews redid the parking lot and added a new welcome kiosk, wheelchair-accessible walkway, exhibits, a program deck and numerous green features.
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Freedom Secondary Trail
Starting at the Portage Hike and Bike Trail in Kent, this proposed multi-purpose trail – on land owned by Metro Regional Transit Authority – will follow an unused railroad corridor, connect to the Tallmadge Trail and continue west to the Towpath Trail via a linkage at the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad’s Northside Station in downtown Akron. Another section may link to the 33.5-mile Bike & Hike Trail in Munroe Falls. A feasibility study was completed in 2009. Construction and engineering will take place in three phases through 2012.
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Liberty Park Nature Center
In 2008 the resource management, naturalist and planning departments began preliminary planning for a proposed nature center at Liberty Park, along with a hiking trail that will provide views of the scenic sandstone ledges and marshland. Trail construction will begin in 2009 and be funded with help from a grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
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Towpath Trail: Various sections
The Cascade Locks Phase II section is open, leading from the Mustill Store to downtown Akron (pictured at right). Work on the section from Summit Lake to Waterloo Road was completed in 2009. From Manchester Road to US 224 the trail is essentially complete. Another half-mile section was completed in 2009, from Eastern Road to within one half-mile of Snyder Road.
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Trail Closings
Sand Run Metro Park: Starting March 1, 2010 and continuing for 90 days, contractors for the city of Akron will be lining a sewer that runs along Sand Run Parkway, between Revere Road and North Portage Path. Though officials expect the parkway and Sand Run Jogging Trail to remain open during most of the work, there could be times when both may need to be temporarily closed.
Bike & Hike Trail: Starting March 1, 2010 and continuing until October 1, contractors for the city of Stow will be completing roadwork on Seasons Road between Wyoga Lake and Allen roads, which may affect the park district's 33.5-mile Bike & Hike Trail in one location. Though officials expect the Bike & Hike Trail and all parking lots to remain open during the work, there could be times when the crossing at Seasons Road may need to be temporarily closed.
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O'Neil Offer
Much of O'Neil Woods Metro Park was donated in 1972 by the O'Neil family, of General Tire fame.
Protect, Serve and Be Fit
Metro Parks rangers must complete a timed 1.5-mile run and meet minimum requirements for push-ups and sit-ups.
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