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Posted on: Apr. 12 2022,10:17 am |
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I am a little curious where this bridge to nowhere is? I've hiked the park with my girl a few times last summer when we were in town, including where your video 1 started....
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Posted on: Apr. 12 2022,11:20 am |
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If you park by the office, the trail directly East is where it starts. Go to the end of that trail where the asphalt stops. Take a right down the sketchy gravel road for about a 1/4 mile and when you see the asphalt to your left that's the start of that short paved section, and the million dollar bridge to nowhere that goes 25ft over the railroad track instead of just using the railroad crossing about 100yds away. They intended to continue the trail to Hayward but it ends right where the video starts.
The other trail the County bought the railroad land from Front street to Manchester for $1 million and never built an inch.
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Posted on: Apr. 12 2022,11:26 am |
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Ok yes. We've been over that bridge. That explains the weird termination for that. We ended up walking back, over the standard railroad crossing....
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After we screw up health care reform, let's take on the initiative of unscrewing the education system (gov't education)
Tacitus: (c. 56 AD-c. 117) "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates."
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Posted on: Apr. 13 2022,6:32 am |
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Thanks for posting your ride Lib,
I only had my bike out a few times last year because of a large project.
looks like the summer of 2022 and 2023/24 will start the expansion of the Blazing Star Trail..
The ultimate goal, the Blazing Star State Trail will be approximately 20 miles long and will run from Albert Lea and Austin, connecting to Austin's city trail system as well the Shooting Star State Trail.
https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_trails/blazingstar/index.html
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Posted on: Apr. 13 2022,7:18 am |
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Hopefully they will at least reach the bridge. They repaved the trail section west of the main road to the edge of the park last year. The city needs to repair their section of trail now, there are several areas on that loop that have cracks big enough to take a road bike down, and one dip towards the park is bad enough that someone put red spray paint lines on both sides of it to warn people.
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Posted on: Apr. 13 2022,8:00 am |
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As I understand it the DNR needs to replace wetland because they doing some filling for the bridge they're building across Albert Lea Lake.
Their plan is to take out the the double loop section of Albert Lea's Blazing Star and make it one big loop, thus replacing the
wetlands. ( State Law )
See lots of older folks just walking the small loop, think that's kind of a waste. IMO
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Posted on: Apr. 13 2022,8:39 am |
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Has the city done anything with the trail since it was built? Seems like there's a lot of planning in Albert Lea but very little action.
They did go down part of the trail with something like an excavator mulcher to trim up the scrubby stuff just past the top of hill. Too bad the county doesn't do that towards Manchester
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Posted on: Apr. 13 2022,1:41 pm |
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when you were across from Jim @ Dudes there thought you were going to do some off-road maneuvering.
will say that there does seem to be a lot of trails around these days. seems like a lot of them are abandoned railroad beds. but by golly people sure use them. you can be way out in the middle of nowhere and see farmers or whoever walking on them.
was out on some abandoned railroad bed a long time ago. was like somewhere out by that old fertilizer plant on 13. seemed like it ran east west. is that part of this Front to Manchester route?
also was on a trail off West 9th a few years ago. that thing appeared to have been abandoned a long time ago. pretty big trees growing where the track must have been. kind of seemed sabotaged here and there as well. so only went down it so far. was always going to go back and see how interesting it was further up.
that would be nice if it was cleared out but probably big bucks to do so.
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Posted on: Apr. 13 2022,3:02 pm |
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Years ago they took some out that started by Garden Villa area and ran past the arena?
This rail bed runs across Clark St just east of Jim & Dudes, and on Fountain St it's just west of Mitch's gas station. After the foot bridge it runs parallel to Elmira then crosses Hwy 13 just before St Johns. Then runs north parallel to 13, goes under the interstate just west of the gas station, then continues on north.
It's visible on google maps satellite view.
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Brand New Day
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Posted on: Apr. 13 2022,5:14 pm |
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Oops Jim & Dudes not Jim @ Dudes. lol
yeah seems that trail was out somewhere by that lake by the arena. the one with the controversial name that people argue about what the true name is.
part of it anyway.
yeah should try to look at the satellite map. cause now am thinking: didn't just see a train along side me on 13 fairly recently?. hah might be getting it mixed up with US 65 S.
guy told me years ago he used to hop the train out of Albert Lea to Waseca on a regular basis.
it is amazing how many trains ran through the area at one time.
didn't somebody post a map here of all the former tracks and whatnot in Albert Lea?
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