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Our goal is to connect the Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Parks Regional Trail system to Washington County's Hardwood Creek Trail in Hugo. In the past several years the City of Centerville and the City of Hugo have actively pursued a plan for this connection. The result is that the trails almost meet at 35E. Figure 1 shows Centerville has a trail emerging from the Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Park extending east. The Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Park has extensive well used beautiful trails and has plans for more. These trails will connect with trails leading to Minneapolis. Hugo has just developed trails heading west from their city to 35E that will connect to the Hardwood Creek Trail running north out ofthe city of Hugo. The Hardwood Creek Trail plan is to go all the way to Duluth. During a meeting on September 25, 2000, Centerville, Hugo, Lino Lakes, Anoka County Parks, Washington County, and the 8t Paul Water Utility agreed to work toward the proposed connection and progress has been made. The objective of this proposal is to finish the connection and complete the trail. The proposal completes a section between two established trail systems. This connection will provide citizens in the immediate communities of Centerville, Lino Lakes and Hugo cross county access (Anoka to Washington) to existing regional outdoor amenities, such as the Anoka Chain of Lakes Park Preserve, its existing beautiful trails, swimming beach, and eventually the Wargo Nature Center in the Chain of Lakes Park. It will also connect to the beautiful trails along Clearwater Creek in Hugo and Lino Lakes. This proposal provides a corridor of access to a much larger community in the Northeast quadrant of the Twin Cities. As other regional trail connections are completed, the Clearwater Trail would provide outdoor enthusiasts throughout the metropolitan area the ability to walk, jog, bike or skate significant distances without having to leave the safety and natural beauty of the trail system. 4