Okay.I. SAWYER, Mich. (WLUC) – Work began on the Okay.I. Fitness Trail Saturday, breaking floor on a two-year technique of elevating cash and gathering supplies.
The Okay.I. Sawyer Outdoor Recreation Coordinator Ryan Lipinski, his spouse, and a few pals spent nearly all of Saturday rebuilding 12 of the unique health stations from what was once a army coaching observe.
The new path might be used year-round; in the summertime for health and mountain climbing, and within the winter for cross nation snowboarding.
In complete, it’s a mile-and-a-half lengthy.
Lipinski estimates the path might be open for public use someday subsequent week.
“People like myself who, I’ve Parkinson’s, and certainly one of these health stations is mainly the identical sort of stuff I do in bodily remedy. It simply offers us one thing to take action that we don’t should drive midway throughout the U.P. to get pleasure from stuff,” says Lipinski.
Educational indicators from the Sault Tribe might be posted alongside the path, in each native tribal language and English.
Lipinski says this is only one of many tasks the Sawyer Community Alliance is engaged on within the Sawyer space.
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