The Okoboji Lakes Area and Dickinson County has the most extensive miles of recreational trails in Siouxland, with 55 miles of a paved trail, and plans are moving to add more.
The next piece could extend the trails to the northeast near the small town of Superior, the director of the Dickinson County Trails Board said Tuesday. Erin Reed told the Dickinson County Board of Supervisors that a state grant of $475,000 was awarded to the group, according to Explore Okoboji.
She said that was part of $14 million awarded this month for six Iowa projects.
Reed said the trails board on Monday voted to apply for federal funding to also add an additional two-mile segment in that vicinity.
That board has done extensive work in landing state and federal grants and substantial fundraising to put that all together over the last 35 years.
The trail system near Milford in the southern part of Dickinson County is also undergoing an expansion.
Reed has said the return on the investment on rec trails is manyfold, in terms of the healthy wellbeing of users and drawing people to use that infrastructure.
