Meeting to Review Indian Rock Park Trail Extension
Construction on the trail may take up to two years to complete.
Little known and hardly developed, a small Baltimore County park next to Perry Hall High School is slated for a major trail extension.
County Councilman David Marks recently announced that plans to increase walking amenities at Indian Rock Park are moving forward. He has scheduled a community meeting at 5:30 p.m. on June 5 in the high school's library to discuss the proposed extension.
"From Ebenezer Road, the trail is planned to extend along the perimeter of the high school campus at Indian Rock Park, then connect with the existing loop that has been build inside the woods. The trail will then return to the high school campus and extend to the existing connection at Silver Hall Road," according to a statement from the councilman.
The extension's purpose is to increase the walkability of areas between Ebenezer Road and the Silver Spring Road, and it may take up to two years to complete. Marks' office gained a $30,000 grant toward the project in December 2011 from the State Highway Administration's Recreational Trails Program.
"One of my priorities as your County Councilman has been to improve the network of roads, sidewalks and trails that connects our neighborhoods," he stated.
Perry Hall Patch plans to live blog the Tuesday meeting.
Which trails and parks in the Perry Hall area do you use the most? Tell us in the comments.
Brad Nicholson
11:23 am on Thursday, May 31, 2012
Sounds like multiple Boy Scout - Eagle Badge projects. Divide up the new trails to be built into 50 yd segments. It would help keep the cost down. are there maps/diagrams/plans of the proposed trails to work with?
David Marks
4:01 pm on Thursday, May 31, 2012
Brad, thank you for your comment. I think there is a role for Scouts to play with perhaps installing benches and other items, but the trail itself will be asphalt. I will have a copy of the route at the meeting.
MikeyG
8:29 am on Friday, June 1, 2012
Baltimore Ct has done an awesome job with all of the new parks over the past decade. My family uses all for sports and rec. Tell me another community that has as many amenities in parks for everyone that is open, clean, and safe. Hard to find them. They got this right. The rec orgs, mostly all done with volunteers, do a great job too. Kudos to Mr. Marks and others who helped with these parks while part of the association. My kids and their friends ask to go play soccer and lax and baseball at NERC and these parks all hours on weekends and its trouble free. Keeps them healthy and out of other troubling choices they could be making.
John Dingedahl
10:22 am on Friday, June 1, 2012
I fully appreciate all the efforts in maintaining and creating new parks and trails, but, I don't see anything being done to create a park on the west side of Perry Hall. Everything is on the east side (meaning east of Belair Road). We pay taxes just like the east side folks, but we get nothing. When was the last time a new park or trail was built on the west side of Perry Hall (west of Belair Road)?
David Marks
4:13 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012
John, this is an excellent point, one I made many times as President of the Perry Hall Improvement Association. Land does need to be preserved west of Belair Road, but the state has raised the Program Open Space account considerably in recent years. East of Belair Road, we have quite a bit of land preserved, but the budget makes improvement of the sites unfeasible for now. Gough Park, for instance, is fully designed, but will cost $3 million to build.