Work continues to connect biking, hiking, horseback riding, and water travel throughout five central Kentucky counties. Members of the Bluegrass Bike Hike Horseback Trails Alliance met Wednesday in Versailes. The Alliance’s Ed Council calls himself an ‘acquaholic’, born along the Chesapeake Bay. He says the current trail initiative goes beyond waterways. “It’s not only water trails, but it’s also land trails for horseback riding, for hiking, for biking and for off road and paved surface motorized trails,” said Council.
Council says phase 2 of the plan calls for bringing Woodford, Franklin, and Owen counties in with Fayette and Scott counties. “The whole overarching of this program is to have trails connect communities and other assets that the Bluegrass Region has. Assets like its historical sites and structures,” explained Council.
Council says the Alliance is working with the National Park Service. He says the initiative has benefitted from federal grant funds. ?
