{"id":40394,"date":"2023-10-12T18:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqse\/noticias-locales\/ribbon-cutting-ceremony-held-for-lova-trail\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T18:00:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T00:00:37","slug":"ribbon-cutting-ceremony-held-for-lova-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/ribbon-cutting-ceremony-held-for-lova-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribbon cutting ceremony held for LoVa Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Phase three completion of the Lower Valley Trail (LoVa) was ushered in with a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday, according to a Glenwood Springs news release.<\/p>\n

The event was hosted by the city of Glenwood Springs and the Lower Valley Trail Association.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you to Jeanne Golay and the LoVa board for your resilience and persistence on keeping progress moving on this trail,\u201d Glenwood Springs City Councilor Erin Zalinski said in the release. Jeanne Golay is the Lower Valley Trail Association executive director. \u201cFor over 20 years our region has chipped away at projects to bring the vision for a non-motorized connection to life. We\u2019re happy to see the added recreational amenity for Glenwood today and to be one step closer to greater regional connectivity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From left, Gregg Rippy, president and owner of Grand River Construction Company in Glenwood Springs, Lower Valley Trail Association Executive Director Jeanne Golay and Glenwood Springs City Councilor Erin Zalinski during Wednesday\u2019s ribbon cutting.<\/figcaption>
Andrea Teres-Martinez\/Post Independent<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The \u201cMeet Me in the Middle\u201d trail is also a partner project with the city of New Castle, Garfield County and the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority (RFTA) that extends the trail from the West Glenwood Treatment Facility on the southwest side of town 700 linear feet to the west ending at a new shade structure and outlook, the release states.<\/p>\n

The project is largely funded by the first-ever Partnership Grant awarded in 2019 by the Garfield County Federal Mineral Lease District (FMLD), the release states.<\/p>\n

\u201cFMLD continues to support the community and is happy to see this wonderful project move forward the LoVa Trail westward,\u201d FMLD Board Member Gregg Rippy said in the release.<\/p>\n

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Gregg Rippy, president and owner of Grand River Construction Company in Glenwood Springs, speaks at the LoVa Trail ribbon cutting ceremony.<\/figcaption>
Andrea Teres-Martinez\/Post Independent<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Future plans for LoVa Trail<\/strong><\/p>\n

LoVa will continue to seek grants to extend the trail, one segment at a time. Golay is hopeful the project will benefit from new federal funding devoted to safety, climate change mitigation and access to public lands, the release states.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a cyclist or pedestrian traveling east to west, Glenwood Springs has the dubious distinction of being the first place where you are forced to get on the interstate highway with vehicles going 65 miles per hour,\u201d she said in the release. \u201cLoVa\u2019s mission is to change that by creating a safe, separated path for everyone.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Current estimates to complete the approximate 9 miles from Glenwood to New Castle come in at $2 million per mile, the release states. The steep, narrow river gorge through South Canyon offers few locations to place a 10-foot-wide path. Most construction in South Canyon must be staged and conducted from the shoulder of the interstate, requiring traffic control and lane closures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phase three completion of the Lower Valley Trail (LoVa) was ushered in with a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday, according to a Glenwood Springs news release. The event was hosted by the city of Glenwood Springs and the Lower Valley Trail Association. \u201cThank you to Jeanne Golay and the LoVa board for your resilience and persistence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-noticias-locales"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 04:18:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"La Nueva Mix","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqse","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}