Amy S. Eckert
Amy S. Eckert is based in Holland, Michigan. She writes about hiking, biking, paddling and snowshoeing trails around the world. Visit amyeckert.com to learn more about her work.
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Kansas’ Prairie Spirit Trail State Park
March 04, 2025
Prairie Spirit Trail State Park: March 2025 Trail of the Month Located southwest of Kansas City and leading from Ottawa to Iola, the Prairie Spirit Trail State Park was the first significant rail-trail in Kansas, and the first to connect multiple Kansas communities. “Having access to open spaces, to publicly available green spaces, that’s rare […]
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Where the Wild Things Go: Exploring Wildlife Corridors Along America’s Trails
July 08, 2024
When the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe of northwest Washington removed a concrete dike along the Dungeness River near Sequim in 2022, not only was a grievous environmental harm corrected, but the tribe also seized the opportunity to provide a connection to a vast trail network. Erected in the 1960s, the dike succeeded in directing the water’s […]
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Montana’s Silver Bow Creek Greenway Trail
November 07, 2023
Trail of the Month: November 2023 “This stream has been completely rebuilt. And now we watch and wait and see what it’s capable of becoming.” —Joe Griffin, a retired hydrogeologist from Butte In a grassland rimmed with lavender-colored, snow-dusted mountain peaks, Montana’s Silver Bow Creek Greenway Trail parallels its namesake creek, which provides habitat to bald eagles […]
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Michigan’s Kal-Haven Trail State Park
December 09, 2022
Trail of the Month: December 2022 Leading from South Haven to Kalamazoo, Michigan’s Kal-Haven Trail State Park ranks as one of the state’s most popular rail-trails. Comprised of a nearly unbroken 34-mile tunnel of hardwood trees, the trail is cool and shady in summer and spectacularly colorful in fall, blazing with shades of red and yellow. Wildflowers […]
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Michigan Trail System Makes Connections From Lake to Shining Lake
July 04, 2021
“Business owners in Wixom know that what’s good for the trail will be good for them.” —John Hensler, trail manager of the Michigan Air Line Trail It was 2018, and if ever a community were eager to embrace a rail-trail project, it was Wixom, Michigan. Residents of the Detroit suburb had wrapped up the purchase […]
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