New path opens in Dexter for Border-to-Border Trail

With 80-degree spring days feeling like summer, a new Border-to-Border Trail segment is becoming a well-worn path already, and other segments are following. Even prior to last weekend's ribbon-cutting ceremony, the freshly completed West Side Connector running from downtown Dexter to Warrior Creek Park was getting a lot of traffic. "Every time I'm out there, there are families using it," notes Coy Vaughn, deputy director of the Washtenaw County Parks & Recreation Commission. "Especially from the [West Ridge] subdivision, because they were basically, from a pedestrian standpoint, cut off from the village." Another section currently under construction that will run from Dexter-Huron Metropark to the village of Dexter should be done by June, Vaughn says. A bridge over the Huron River and a quarter-mile path is being laid in the first phase, followed by a link-up to downtown. And since the bridge-crossing over Mill Creek that connects to the West Ridge subdivision and the border of Hudson Mills Park is done, the next phase commences in August. A 2.9-mile stretch will begin at the park border and follow the Huron River valley, adjacent to the Huron River. "That will provide direct access to residents of Dexter all the way through to the Hudson Mills trail system," Vaughn says. The majority of that project should be done by winter, with wrap-up next spring. Source:  Coy Vaughn, deputy director of the Washtenaw County Parks & Recreation Commission Writer: Tanya Muzumdar