At last week’s Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation, and Conservation District Board of Commissioners meeting, Hank Seemann, deputy director at Humboldt County Public Works, presented a provisional plan to extend the southwestern leg of the Humboldt Bay Trail to College of the Redwoods.“I’d like to just give you a brief overview of a planning study that we’re wrapping up to extend the Humboldt Bay Trail from Eureka south to College of the Redwoods,” Seemann told the commissioners and public. “Once the trail along the safety corridor was in the construction phase, we wanted to think about what’s the next frontier, and this is where we started to look at the biggest priority to expand regional trails, both for alternative or active transportation … and also to provide additional racing opportunities.”Seemann noted that the county has led the effort to extend the northeast portion of the trail, a project that will be completed in June or July of this year. When completed, that project will connect Eureka and Arcata along an expanding network of paved trails.The new extension of trail will continue from Humboldt Bay Trail's current southwest terminus, just north of King Salmon, to College of the Redwoods.Keep Reading
