- Source: Coast-to-Coast Connector trail
The coast" target="_blank">Coast-to-coast" target="_blank">Coast Connector bicycle trail is a proposed 250 mile bicycle and multi-use trail across Florida. The trail would provide a path connecting the Gulf of Mexico on peninsular Florida's west coast" target="_blank">coast to the Atlantic Ocean on Florida's east coast" target="_blank">coast. Legislation in support of the planned trail passed the Florida House of Representatives in April 2014 and would fund it with $15.5 million. Florida State Senator Andy Gardiner of Orlando is one of the plan's leading supporters. Legislation funding the trail with $50 million was vetoed in 2013 by Governor Rick Scott in 2013. The funding would be used close gaps in the trail route. The estimated cost of the project is $45 million. It would incorporate existing public spaces and trails including:
Fred Marquis Pinellas Trail
Starkey Trail
Suncoast Trail
Good Neighbor Trail
Withlacoochee State Trail
General James A. Van Fleet State Trail
South Lake Trail
West Orange Trail
Clarcona-Ocoee Trail
Pine Hills Trail
Seminole-Wekiva Trail
Rinehart Trail
Spring to Spring Trail
East Central Regional Rail Trail
References
External links
coast" target="_blank">Coast to coast" target="_blank">Coast Connector Florida Greenways & Trails Foundation
Florida coast" target="_blank">Coast to coast" target="_blank">Coast Trail at 100 Florida Trails