Category Overview
Trails grants help communities and recreation areas fund the creation and improvement of trails for walking, hiking, cycling, horseback riding, and cross-country skiing. These grants help make communities more livable, create regional trails systems, and open up beautiful outdoor spaces for people to enjoy. WWRP is the largest source of trail support in the state of Washington.
Project Highlights
This project proposes to extend the Fish Lake Trail to formalize the connection to the Spokane River Centennial State Park Trail (Centennial Trail) and the South Gorge Trail. In its entirety, the Fish Lake Trail will extend over 6.5 miles from Queen Lucas Lake in the south to the Centennial Trail on the north side of the Spokane River. There exists a gap in the alignment where the trail crosses two BNSF rail lines. This is phase one of three of the Fish Lake These projects have been designed and are currently pending funding for construction. The proposed connection would begin at the current northern terminus of Fish Lake Trail, located at South LindekeStreet near the I-90 and US 195 interchange, and end at the Sandifur Bridge and People’s Park trailhead off Clarke Avenue. A connection to the trail from Thorpe Road will also be included.Fish Lake Trail is a key component of the City’s network of regional trails, which are shared-use paths, providing access for both pedestrians and bicyclists, and are part of the regional transportation plan. Users are anticipated to be a combination of recreational users as well as commuters. A goal of this project is to provide improved access to other trails and State Parks, but this connection will also provide a more direct connection to the commercial and business districts of downtown Spokane for the West Hills, Latah/Hangman, Vinegar Flats and Grandview/Thorpe neighborhoods.