Part of Pumpkinvine
Closed for Construction
Construction on a new section
of the Pumpkinvine Nature Trail
between York Dr. and the end of the
current trail east of the Dairy Queen in
Middlebury will require the trail to be
closed from SR 13 to CR 43. Construction began on March 25 and is scheduled finish by the end of May 2013.
“The closing is necessary because
trail construction is happening at the
same time SR13 will be resurfaced
from the Dairy Queen to State Road 4,
making it impossible to have trail traffic exit onto SR 13 at the Dairy Queen,”
according to Scott Van Ommeran, superintendent of Elkhart County Parks.
The decision to close the trail was
made by the three organizations responsible for the construction: Elkhart
County Parks (the managing agency),
Indiana Department of Transportation
(the funding agency) and Walsh and
Kelly (the construction firm).
“We do not want people continuing west past CR 43 and getting to the
end of the trail with nowhere to go,”
Van Ommeran said. “The liability of
allowing people to blaze their own
trail through the construction zone
or across private property is too high.
After discussion of alternatives to
closing the trail, Elkhart County Parks,
INDOT and Walsh and Kelly agreed
that they could not provide temporary access across private property in
order to keep the trail open during
construction.”
Trail users are advised to be patient with the inconvenience because
the end result will be a great addition
to the Pumpkinvine Nature Trail. The
suggested routes for trail users coming
from the east is to turn north on CR 43
and use CR 14 to reach SR 13.
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