Heyo! Excellent news for all runners, cyclists, and perambulators: further progress has been made on Arcata’s Annie & Mary trail. It’s now paved all the way from Sunset Avenue to where it meets up with West End, a little over two miles total. All that’s left to pave is the mile and a half or so from there to its terminus at the pump station. 

As recently as last week, the trail was unpaved beyond its first quarter mile from Sunset to the Hinarr Hu Moulik dorms. The portion beyond the intersection with West End has been cleared of brush, levelled, and gravelled, but is still unpaved. The new miles of pavement are flat and smooth. 

Because of today’s holiday we were unable to query City Hall about the timeline to completion, but the last time we wrote an update, Director of Environmental Services Emily Sinkhorn predicted that the trail may be totally finished as soon as the end of this summer. 

Sinkhorn asks that trail users exert their common sense and respect signs and barricades preventing them from accessing sections of the trail that are clearly off-limits. If there’s a big piece of equipment in the trail, she said, please respect any ongoing construction and avoid using that segment.