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Anyone know what's up with the Highland Park trail ending at One Wild Place?

Across the street from the Highland Park Pool, you can take some steps down into the woods, then take a left and follow the utility line right of way parallel to Butler for awhile. Eventually it spits you out at the intersection of One Wild Place and Butler. This could make for a nice bicycle connection between the upper park and Butler St, but the connection from the trail to the street is really steep and not very well developed. There is even a pedestrian pad at that corner of the intersection, complete with a crosswalk button and everything, but again it doesn't feel like that trail really connects to this intersection on purpose. Anyone know if there are plans in the works to make this a more functional connection?
jake-m
2015-02-18 16:01:27
I am not familiar enough with Highland Park to picture this precisely, but is this maybe the Heth's Run trail that the City was looking at a few years back?
swalfoort
2015-02-18 17:03:44
There is a little bit of single track in there. PTAG's website may give you more info about any plans they may have.
stefb
2015-02-18 23:41:53
It is a maintained mountain bike walking trail. I ride that trail several times a week year around and was just on it yesterday. To get to the pool there is a trail connection, but it is too steep/slanted to ride with the icy conditions. It is fine if there isn't ice like there is now. It is nice single track and a bit too steep to ride a street bike on most of the time because it is wet most of the time. I love that little trail for my commute.
gg
2015-02-19 00:04:24
Most of the bikeable trails in Highland Park are in google maps. I helped put some of them into the database using Google's mapmaker. https://goo.gl/maps/H1PyB
paulheckbert
2015-02-19 10:46:45
Cool, thanks for the info. Maybe one day there will be a riverfront trail stretching from downtown to the Heth's Run Bridge, then we can ride up into the park from the riverfront using this trail.
jake-m
2015-02-19 11:11:46
BTW, does anyone know if there is a way to just walk in to the zoo off one wild place without going all the way down to the parking lot and up the escalator?
benzo
2015-02-19 15:50:37
Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of making people pay?
jonawebb
2015-02-19 17:55:42
Unless they're also set up to take money or check passes at, say, the education complex on One Wild Place. Unlikely but possible.
steven
2015-02-19 18:13:02
> BTW, does anyone know if there is a way to just walk in to the zoo off one wild place without going all the way down to the parking lot and up the escalator? No, the only public gate is the one in the parking lot. All of the OWP gates are staff only.
epanastrophe
2015-02-19 18:49:45
That's lame. It would be nice to walk to the zoo, but it's made really inconvenient. To walk from lawrenceville, you've got to navigate sidewalks that are in disrepair and have cars almost entirely parked on them because they are too afraid of getting their car or mirrors creamed by cars on the very wide sections of butler st. (People treat this as if there are 4 lanes here, instead of just two wide lanes). To walk from highland park you've got to walk all the way down one wild place and through the parking lot to the entrance, and all the way back up.
benzo
2015-02-20 13:08:18