Driving along Sheridan Road it is sometimes hard to even see that there’s an enormous body of water behind the stately homes that line the lakefront on the North Shore. What if you could see the lake in more than just glimpses, but actually hike along the shoreline, and not just from the North Shore to the city of Chicago and back – but all around the lake? From one Great Lake to another?
The Detroit Free Press on July 14 published a story about a proposal for a concept called the Great Lakes Trail that would connect all of the Great Lakes via a 10,900-mile path built at the high water mark around all the lakes. The idea comes from Melissa Scanlan, an associate professor, associate dean and director of the Environmental Law center at Vermont Law School.
According to the Free Press article: “It would span at least eight states and two Canadian provinces, and would be the longest continuous marked trail in the world — five times larger than the 2,180-mile Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia, and more than four times bigger than the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail from the U.S. border with Canada to its border with Mexico.”
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