In Pacific MO, saving a bridge to become part of the Ozark Trail : STLToday

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In what appears to be the most viable proposal to save it, Pacific would annex the bridge, providing a crossing for the Ozark Trail, which now terminates in Onondaga Cave State Park, about 60 miles southwest.

To pay for maintenance, the Magi Foundation, a local planning and policy nonprofit, would raise $750,000 for a trust.

But the Ozark Trail Association does not have easements from Onondaga to Pacific, and assembling that much land could take more than a decade.

Preserving the Bend could jump start the process, said Matt Atnip, the group’s executive director. The group’s plan calls for the trail to meet up with Great Rivers Greenway at the Franklin and St. Louis county line. In the next five years, tourists could bike from Route 66 State Park near Eureka to Pacific and return via canoe, well before the extension from Onondaga is completed, Atnip predicted.

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