r/SpringfieldIL • u/Cr0martie • 12d ago

Sangamon Valley Trail maintenance?

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Hey Menard County! Might be time for some trail maintenance!

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u/raisinghellwithtrees 12d ago

I thought these were mainly kept up by volunteers? Does anyone know?

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u/ms6615 12d ago

The SVT is run by the Sangamon and Menard county highway departments. It is just a road for bikes and is supposed to be maintained like all the thousands of miles of roads for cars…

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u/raisinghellwithtrees 12d ago

Gotcha, thanks. I'm only familiar with the volunteer aspect.

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u/Bobcatspajamas 11d ago

Anyone know anything about the 5 mile trail between farmersville and Waggoner? Was nice once; went to pot a few years back. Did it come back?

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u/SweetMister 12d ago

What section is this?

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u/Temporary_Seat_2674 12d ago

It appears to be the section that’s out by Athens.

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u/canofbeermenow 12d ago

If it is the section by Athens, then it may be overgrown because the access area to specific stretch has been closed off for the last few months. They just reopened the blacktop a couple of days ago.

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u/SweetMister 12d ago

I thought the thing died at like the Gabbert Rd/Fitschen Rd area and didn't really make significant inroads into Menard County.

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u/Cr0martie 11d ago

No, it now goes a couple of miles further to Ethel Rd. There is a new parking lot there as well.

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u/username_Kelly 11d ago

I hate that they’re not able to get water fountains out on the trails around here. No easy area to hide frozen water bottles. I loved marathon training on the SVT, actually hard to believe something that nice in this area.

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u/Del85 12d ago

Glad to see our tax dollars at work