Plans in place to develop Trumbull County parks

January 1, 2008 at 3:48p.m.

WARREN — Wintertime and natural attractions will develop at two large northwestern Trumbull County parks, a 23-mile canoe and kayak trail will blossom along the Mahoning River, and new recreational opportunities will spring up in the eastern part of county if the suggestions from about 20 volunteer parks committee members are adopted.

The volunteers met about four times each in October and November to suggest the best ways to use 932 acres in 15 locations now owned by the county MetroParks board or being acquired, most of it purchased in recent years with grants approved in the past four years by the Clean Ohio Conservation Fund.

The meetings were organized by Jonathan Millea, who the county hired in June to write the county’s first parks master plan. Millea, who works for the county planning commission, says he plans to complete the master plan, incorporating the suggestions of the committee members, by March.

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