MEDIA ADVISORY: Sept. 9, 2011
PORTION OF PALATKA-LAKE
BUTLER STATE TRAIL CLOSED FOR REPAIRS
~Public access to a section
of trail temporarily restricted~
PUTNAM COUNTY–The Florida Department of Environmental
Protection’s Division of Recreation and Parks advises the public and all
interested parties that a portion of the Palatka-Lake Butler State Trail
(PLBST) is temporarily closed for renovations. A one-mile section of paved
trail, from CR 315 in Grandin, west to Goodson Prairie Road, is currently
closed to public access. The remainder of the paved portion of the PLBST, from
west of Keystone Heights to Goodson Prairie Road, just east of State Road 26,
remains open to the public.
The
PLBST stretches nearly 47 miles through Putnam,
Union, Clay and Bradford counties along the former
Norfolk-Southern Railroad right-of-way, from the vicinity of SR 238 in Lake
Butler to west of US 17 in Palatka. This multi-use trail is being paved in
phases by the Florida Department of Transportation, which is currently
constructing a 4.1-mile section of trail in Union County and has just begun
construction on 4.4 miles of trail from CR 315 west to Holloway Road in Putnam
County. With the completion of these projects, approximately one-third of the
PLBST (18 miles) will be paved.
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