Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Terry Kryshak, right, and Dustin Filippini, with his children, Dominic, 4, and Giana, 7, walk along the path the two cleared Tuesday for walkers and mountain bikers to connect to the Iron Belle Trail from the Yale neighborhood of Bessemer. Some of the path uses former rail grade.
By TOM LAVENTURE
BESSEMER - Volunteers and some summer youth labor program members helped to create a trail link from the Yale neighborhood to the Bessemer segment of the Iron Belle Trail on Tuesday.
The 0.21 mile trail is on city property and starts about a half-mile east of the Moore Street trailhead of the Iron Belle. The trail departs the Iron Belle and runs between Bessemer Plywood Corporation land and the Xcel Energy transfer station up to Spring Street, former U.S. 2, and nearly across from the Colby Mine monument.
A wide shoulder will allow walkers and mou...
