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Heartland Asphalt busy Monday on new Mason City trails (photos and video)

Heartland Asphalt crew dredging a boulevard for the new pedestrian/bike trail along North Illinois Avenue in Mason City, Iowa
Heartland Asphalt crew dredging a boulevard for the new pedestrian/bike trail along North Illinois Avenue in Mason City, Iowa

MASON CITY – Any active person has to be over-joyed at the sight of the new trails under construction in Mason City.

Perhaps the most-noticeable project in town right now are the much-needed bicycle and pedestrian trails under construction all over the city. This is a real amenity that can be used to lure younger, active people to town – or to keep people from leaving. Many say these new trails will do a lot to make a better quality of life in Mason City.

You can see the trail construction in several key locations: South Monroe Avenue, where Larry Elwood construction is installing concrete trail from about 8th Street south to 15th Street. Elsewhere, 9th Street SW near Menards and north along Taft Avenue has new trails going in.

Today, Heartland Asphalt was busy with skid loaders and tractors, plowing up the boulevard along North Illinois Avenue, prepping to install an asphalt trail along that route. It will link up with the NIACC trail, which is a great route all the way to the NIACC campus.

If all goes well, most every trail construction project started this summer will be completed in the next several weeks.

Heartland Asphalt tractor truck at the site
Heartland Asphalt tractor truck at the site
NIACC trail sign, just east of Mason City high School
NIACC trail sign, just east of Mason City high School
Heartland scrapes the boulevard for new trail, July 18, 2016
Heartland scrapes the boulevard for new trail, July 18, 2016
Heartland Asphalt employee hard at work, July 18, 2016
Heartland Asphalt employee hard at work, July 18, 2016
Trail extension project along 4th Street SE near Asbury Park, east of Mason City High School
Trail extension project along 4th Street SE near Asbury Park, east of Mason City High School
Another crew working at the Illinois Avenue entrance to Mason City High School
Another crew working at the Illinois Avenue entrance to Mason City High School
Illinois Avenue trail construction
Illinois Avenue trail construction
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