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Trout Run Trail
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One
end of Trout Run Trail will begin near Decorah’s new Fifth
Avenue Bridge and continue past Will Baker Park to Pulpit Rock
Campground. From the campground, the trail will connect
with the existing Oneota Trail, utilizing both its Dug Road
and dike segments. |
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Near the Carlson quarry ponds, the trail will leave the dike
and run parallel to Montgomery Street and Highway 9 east to
Trout Run Park at the mouth of the coldwater stream Trout Run
on the Upper Iowa River. |
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At
the park, home of the relocated bowstring bridge, the trail
will pass underneath the highway and follow the stream to the
Decorah Fish Hatchery, operated by the Iowa Department of
Natural Resources (DNR). Near the hatchery, the trail
will join an abandoned rail bed that once led to Decorah from
Nordness, Ossian and Postville. |
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The route next works its way back
into the Oneota Valley on private farmland and then uses the
abandoned Old Highway 52 roadbed to arrive at the intersection
of Highways 9 and 52. The connection along Highway 52
back to Dug Road and the campground was added to the project
in June 2006 in response to a Vision Iowa challenge to
complete the loop. |
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