Cemar Trail progress!

 

Trail connects to 33rd St Dr SE near 3rd Av

Laozi, who may or may not have actually existed, may or may not have said that "A journey to Marion begins with a single step." You can now take that step on the southeast Cedar Rapids portion of the CeMar Trail! (See the route on the Linn Country Trails map here.)

Crossing 32nd St Dr SE
(32nd St Dr is not to be confused with 32nd St SE, which is 
in a completely different part of town)

Approaching Raining Rose.
Who can cling to a raining rose?

The Cemar Trail will eventually--LCTA estimate is 2023--connect to a long-standing trail through Marion, and will arguably make the bike trip between the downtowns faster than the car trip. 

Approaching 1st Avenue and 30th St Drive SE

You can go under this bridge, but you can't go through it... yet. 

When the bridge under 1st Avenue is open, you can ride all the way to Cedar Lake (with some on-street bike lanes as you approach the lake.) Eventually, the connections will lead all the way to the Mississippi River!

SEE ALSO:

"Trails Opened, Trails in the Works, and Other Corridor Biking News," 1 November 2018

Kea Wilson, "Protected Bike Paths Saved Lives During COVID," Streetsblog USA, 10 August 2021