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City of Parks is a municipal project to create a continuous paved pedestrian and biking trail around the city of Louisville, Kentucky while also adding a large amount of park land. The project was announced on February 22, 2005. Current plans call for making basically the entire 1,600-acre (6 km²) Floyds Fork flood plain in eastern Jefferson County into park space, expanding area in the Jefferson Memorial Forest, and adding riverfront land and wharfs along the Riverwalk Trail and Levee Trail. There are also plans to connect the 100-mile (160 km) Louisville trail to a planned seven mile (11 km) trail connecting the Southern Indiana cities of New Albany, Clarksville and Jeffersonville.
[edit] Louisville Loop
Louisville Loop is a planned 110-mile (180 km) walking and bike path to be built around the entire city of Louisville. Currently over 25 miles (40 km) of the trail have been completed, with the other sections slated for completion by 2012.
[edit] Sections of Louisville Loop
The newly completed bridge over Mill Creek near
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- Riverwalk - this is the oldest walking trail along the Ohio River in the city, dating back to the 1980s. It stretches 6 miles (10 km) from Shawnee Park to the Belvedere at Downtown
- Mill Creek Trail - The first stretch of the Mill Creek Trail was completed in the early 2000s by L G & E, whose property much of the trail is located on. A second stretch was added by the City in 2007, which included a $2 million bridge over Mill Creek. This stretch currently ends at Lee Lane in Riverside Gardens
- Levee Trail - is a 3.6-mile (5.8 km) trail running along the flood protection from Riverside Park in Pleasure Ridge Park to the Farnsley-Moremen House
- (Proposed) Jefferson Memorial Forest Trail
- (Proposed) Floyds Fork Trail
- (Proposed) Eastern Suburbs Trail
- (Proposed) River Road/Waterfront Trail
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