trails

The city and its engineering partner will begin the design and eventual bidding of more than one mile of new trail in the greater Mullan area.

In August, the city won a grant from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks to update and expand the current trailhead at Duncan Drive, with an emphasis on accessibility.

Kevin Proescholdt writes, "Let’s cherish our wilderness heritage, whole and intact. We owe it to the farseeing founders of the Wilderness Act, and we owe it to future generations."

The steep three-fourths-mile hike to the M attracts over 1,000 hikers daily, connecting them to miles of adjacent U.S. Forest Service trails and the city trail system.

A stretch of an old railroad bed abandoned long ago could become the newest segment of the Great American Trail once the city and airport flesh out a plan.

Poised to transform a defunct rail route, the Great Redwood Trail is expected to bring thousands of new visitors to picturesque Northern California. That has community leaders both optimistic and concerned.

The Missoula City Council on Wednesday approved a number of transportation projects, including a crossing project on South Russell Street and a trail extension off Flynn Lane and Mullan Road.

The New Meadows trail system will serve as a one-half mile loop in a new 8-acre park off Mullan Road.

The saga surrounding the maligned Northside pedestrian bridge near downtown Missoula could be approaching an end, if work to repair the failing structure moves forward as planned.