Great Western Trail Construction
Construction has begun on 5.5 miles of the Great Western Trail between Severance and Eaton. The $850,000 construction project is funded by grants from the Federal Highway Administration’s Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP), Colorado Parks & Wildlife “Colorado the Beautiful” grant, and matching contributions from the towns of Eaton, Severance, Windsor and Weld County.
The old Great Western Railway bed will be cleared, graded and a new 10’ wide crusher fines trail surface installed on top. A native grass mix will be seeded into all disturbed ground outside the trail surface. Construction will begin on the west end of the project with the modification of the historic Roulard train trestle for use as a pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the lake.
Construction contractor L4 Environmental will work eastward from County Road 27, with a projected completion date of August 1, 2020. The final 1.5 miles of trail connecting into Severance is expected to be completed in 2021.
A rough schedule of construction activity is shown below.
Segment | Earthwork | Surface installation | Seeding/Mulching |
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CR 27 - CR 29 | May 21 – June 8 | June 8 – June 17 | June 22 – June 25 |
CR 29 – CR 31 | June 3 – June 11 | June 11 - June 17 | June 22 – June 25 |
CR 31 – CR 33 | June 15 – June 23 | June 24 - June 30 | July 2 – July 7 |
CR 33 – CR 35 | June 29 – July 7 | July 7 – July 13 | July 14 – July 17 |
CR 35 – Cheyenne Av | July 13 – July 21 | July 21 – July 27 | July 28 – July 31 |