Dallas County Conservation receives $15,000 to extend High Trestle Trail

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Fri May 25 2018
Posted Aug 15, 2018
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Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, has announced the recipients of its 2018 Doppelt Family Trail Development Fund grants, including a grant to further extend the iconic High Trestle Trail in Iowa. The Dallas County Conservation Board will receive a $15,000 grant from the nonprofit for the acquisition of six parcels of land required to extend High Trestle Trail to the Raccoon River Valley Trail north of Des Moines. The 2018 Doppelt Fund grantees mark the largest pool of RTC-funded projects to date, with more than $140,000 invested in 10 projects nationwide, the organization said in arelease.The fund supports small, regional projects that are vital to trail systems but often fall through the cracks of traditional funding streams. RTC received nearly $5.5 million in application requests for the 2018 grant cycle, demonstrating the national reality of unmet trail funding needs, RTC said.