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Celebrating Place .

Celebrating Place. How trails embrace our environment, celebrate history, and connect to our community. Jeffrey R. Kerr, ASLA Floyd Browne Group. Trails can be more than lineal corridors with beginnings and ends. Signature Park Beachwood, Ohio. But trail systems can be more than that.

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Celebrating Place .

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  1. Celebrating Place. How trails embrace our environment, celebrate history, and connect to our community. Jeffrey R. Kerr, ASLA Floyd Browne Group

  2. Trails can be more than lineal corridors with beginnings and ends. Signature Park Beachwood, Ohio

  3. But trail systems can be more than that. Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail Peninsula Train Station

  4. What makes a trail a destination? Cascade Locks Akron, Ohio

  5. They can link us to our history. Historical Portage Path

  6. They can let us explore our heritage. Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail Cuyahoga Valley National Park

  7. They can link us to our history. or to our built environment. Canal Reservation Cleveland Metroparks

  8. or just remind us of our past. Maple Highlands Trail Geauga County

  9. They can connect us to our neighborhoods. Freedom Secondary Trail Tallmadge, Ohio

  10. They can reveal special places that are sometimes hidden. West Creek Reservation Cleveland Metroparks

  11. They can allow us to preserve our transportation heritage Niles Bikeway

  12. They can let you see things from a different perspective. Honda Wetland

  13. or sometimes just to get a little closer. Sippo Lake Education Center and Trail Stark County

  14. They can teach us about the complexity of our environment.

  15. Or the simple enjoyment of it… North Fork Trail Bath Township

  16. They can promote alternative transportation. Cascade Locks Akron, Ohio

  17. or just provide places to get out and exercise. Sand Run Trail Metro Parks, Serving Summit County

  18. They don’t always need be on land. Cuyahoga River Cleveland, Ohio

  19. They can help reclaim abandoned places. Former B.F. Goodrich Manufacturing Complex Akron, Ohio

  20. They can introduce us to important natural resources. Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail Cuyahoga Valley National Park

  21. So let’s think how trails can make connections with our environment, history, and culture. Treadway Creek Cleveland

  22. Celebrating Place. How trails embrace our environment, celebrate history, and connect to our community.

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