When the Dallas County Conservation Board completes its nine-mile connection between the Raccoon River Valley and High Trestle Trails, it will have put the finishing touch on a continuous 118-mile loop of central Iowa trails.
This summer, the board will get two steps closer to finishing the connection between Perry and Woodward with plans to add two more miles.
In what the board calls phases three and four, another mile will be added to the Woodward side and the Perry side, with a 153-foot bridge being built over Beaver Creek near Perry.
Conservation board director Mike Wallace said that with phases one and two being completed in 2018 and 2020, respectively, and each adding a mile, by the end of the summer a total of four miles will have been completed.
