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Coelho, race director and CEO of USA
Productions, the race organizer. “Having
events in our sweet spot is really important
to us,” McAlea says.
Folsom relies on support from nonprofit
and volunteer groups like Friends of Folsom
Parkways, which sponsors community-ser-
vice days and a new project every April,
says Brett Bollinger, the city’s senior trails
planner. The Jim Konopka Volunteer Bridge,
for example, was built in 2009 when vol-
unteers spent 12 Saturdays working on the
project.
After opening in the fall of 2017, the
6.3 mile paved Johnny Cash Trail is a pop-
ular way for the city to highlight its history
with Folsom State Prison. Cash, who died
in 2003, was forever linked to the facility
when he performed “Folsom Prison Blues”
there in January 1968 that resulted in a live
album.
The trail honoring the singer begins
near the Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary, with
users able to take in views of the American
River and Folsom Lake. Eight art installa-
tions along the Johnny Cash Trail route will
be installed as funding becomes available,
Bollinger says. The first, a 7-foot guitar pick,
will be installed at the beginning of the trail
next year.
The city’s next major trail expansion will
come with its south of Highway 50 Folsom
Ranch development plan scheduled for the
next 25-30 years. The plan includes a mix of
homes, businesses, parks and open space
all interconnected by a network of tree-
lined streets and mixed-use trails, Bollinger
says.
“I didn’t really think it would get to
where the system is now,” Konopka says.
“But we had the full support of the city, and
I just put my head down and kept working,
and slowly we started seeing the results. It
was hard to walk away from that.” n
Steve Martarano was a reporter at the Sacra-
mento Union for 10 years during the 1980s and
worked as a sportswriter, was on the daytime
crime beat and reviewed concerts. On Twitter
@MartArchives.
Folsom’s trail system has also attracted
world-class sporting events, including
three Amgen Tour of California legs
since 2014.
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