Front Range Trail between Fort Collins and Loveland officially opens

Image credit: NFRMPO Staff

On Tuesday afternoon elected officials and staff from the City of Fort Collins, The City of Loveland, and Larimer County held a ribbon cutting for a section of the Front Range Trail connecting the two cities. The trail was completed through a partnership between the three governments to construct the first shared-use trail from Fort Collins to Loveland has been in the works since 2002. The project cost was $1.2M, with $800,000 in grant funding from state sources, $450,000 of which was awarded in the NFRMPO’s 2014 Call for Projects. A second connection between the two cities is expected to be completed by fall 2018 along the Long View Corridor, providing a similar route north-south route. Both projects are designated as Regional Non-Motorized Corridors in the NFRMPO's 2013 Regional Bicycle Plan and 2016 Non-Motorized Plan.

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