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Great Headwaters Trails Making Final Push To Connect Conover, Phelps

Great Headwaters Trails

The 11-mile biking and hiking trail is about 80 percent complete, and the folks who are working to have a connecting biking and hiking path between Conover and Phelps are hoping to get the needed funds to finish the trail, conceived 7 years ago.

Great Headwaters Trails spokesperson Jeff Currie says this past summer another 5.5 miles was added. .

Currie says the entire 11 mile trail is a $1.8 million dollar project. He says the completed nine miles cost $1,5 million of that total, and it is fully funded.The trail connecting the two towns through the woods is now nine miles long.

Currie says it will cost about another $260,000 to finish the two miles.

WXPR's Ken Krall asked Currie about the recently completed 9 miles....

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