Cortland sled riding hill is ready for use

Staff report

CORTLAND

The project has had challenges, but the sled-riding hill at Eastlake MetroPark is finally open.

“All that is needed now is for Mother Nature to provide lots of snow,” according to a news release from the MetroParks.

The park, built by the city of Cortland and Trumbull County MetroParks at 433 N. Mecca Street, will be dedicated at a ribbon cutting at 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Hours of operation will be dawn to dusk. The park, which is just north of the Lake Vista retirement community, has a paved parking lot and portable restrooms.

The Cortland Service Department has been working to build up the hill and prepare the runout area over the past two years.

Through a donation of labor and equipment from Miller Young Paving of Bazetta, dirt was transported from a project at Lakeview schools to complete final grading.

Erosion problems were among the reasons the project had to be delayed, officials said.