The city of Rhinelander’s finance committee has signed off on a plan for building the first part of a nonmotorized trail near the Pelican River.
The committee agreed to put forward about $130,000 if matching grant money comes in.
Council member Alex Young says the a ten-foot wide paved trail would connect hotels along Kemp Street, the Chamber of Commerce, and the new boat landing on Boyce Drive.
“Out at the confluence of the Wisconsin and Pelican, we built a pretty substantial boat landing facility out there on the former DNR ranger station site. I think this trail ties in with a lot of those other river projects that the city’s involved in right now.”
The first phase of the project would be about a mile long.
The city would borrow a large part of matching money that’s required by grant applications.
Young says those application cycles are coming up this spring.
First the plan must win approval from the full city council.
