Another segment of a rail to trail project between Spirit Lake and Lake Park is set for paving. The Dickinson County Board of Supervisors today (Tues.) awarded a bid to pave the third phase of what's known as the “Tatanka Ska Trace” trail. Erin Reed, Director of the Dickinson County Trails Board, told the supervisors this will extend the new trail further west out of Spirit Lake.
Reed says the project will be paid for through a $202,000 state grant; a $184,000 federal grant and by funding from Imagine Iowa Great Lakes. She says they're also applying for some gap funding from the Wellmark program.
The supervisors also approved a resolution to move ahead with applying for grants to help fund a trail on the east side of Highway 86 from the West Okoboji Trail North Harbor tunnel to the Tatanka Ska Trace trail...a distance of a little more than a mile.