Manitou Incline To Be Closed Between August-November 2014 for Repairs
It looks like all of us fans of the Manitou Incline are going to have to try some other routes in the area to replace our Incline workouts for 4 months:
A $1.6 million plan to preserve the Manitou Springs Incline will keep the trail off limits for an estimated four months, officials said Wednesday.
Read more at http://gazette.com/closing-for-repairs-manitou-incline-fans-will-have-to-find-another-route-for-four-months/article/1520667#ksSsmGaXIM4Milot.99Colorado Springs city officials said the closure, which starts sometime in August, is a necessary sacrifice owing to the challenges of working on the precipitous slope, which rises 2,000 feet in roughly a mile along a restricted rail corridor.
“If we don’t tackle the issues facing the Incline now, we may not have the Incline in the very near future,” said landscape architect and project manager Sarah Bryarly, detailing how flooding last year severely damaged as much as 30 percent of the trail.
The work is expected to wrap up in December. Anyone caught defying the closure could face a $100 ticket, Bryarly said. [The Gazette]
You can read the rest at the link, but there are plenty of other trail running options in the area so hopefully people respect the temporary closure of the Incline. Below are a few alternative trails for people to run that are worth checking out until the Incline repairs are complete:
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