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bike/pedestrian trail design Downtown Riverfront Corridor |
The Downtown Pigeon Creek Greenway in Evansville, Indiana was dedicated on National Trails Day, June 5, 2004 as a National Recreation Trail. A $3M project funded through transportation dollars in an 80/20 federal/local split, the trail provides connectivity between the Aztar Riverboat and Sunrise Park. The Indiana Chapter American Society of Landscape Architects designated the project with an "Award of Excellence" in October 2004. |
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| The Pigeon Creek Greenway Passage on the Evansville Riverfront [view larger map] | ||||||||
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The Evansville Downtown Riverfront is the city's premier open space and cultural resource. It is the terminus of Main Street, a window onto the mighty Ohio River, the setting for a respected Museum of Art and Science and Transportation Museum, and the site of a riverboat casino with restaurants, entertainment, hotel, and riverfront open space.
The riverboat is a tourism magnet and economic development resource for the city. Its revenues have directly benefited parks and open space, including recent and ongoing major improvements to the riverfront. Those improvements include the renovation of the Esplanade and Dress Plaza into a vibrant civic space, and the design and construction of the downtown section of the Pigeon Creek Greenway passage. The latter project leveraged riverboat revenue to capture federal funds for construction.
This section of trail connects downtown to Sunset Park and Sunrise Park. Major constraints included the existing earthen and concrete flood protection levees, and the operating riverboat Casino site. The bicycle and pedestrian trail is concrete edge-banded and paved with hexagonal asphalt pavers at trailhead entries and street adjacencies, and is fully ADA compliant. |
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additional resources |
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Evansville Downtown Riverfront (an integral part of the Downtown Greenway) |
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| Report on construction from Evansville [more] | ||||||||
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Pigeon Creek Greenway West Levee Corridor [web site under development] |
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Pigeon Creek Greenway Midtown Corridor South [web site under development] |
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Evansville Parks, Open Space, and Recreation Master Plan 2003-2007 |
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