The first portion goes through a large muskeg system before climbing up into the timbered hillside.
Yeah, not cheap but the hope is that there is much less maintenance than the boardwalk style in the future. This trail is on city property and will get used a lot by cruise visitors. The first section through the muskeg was originally designed to be narrower but the bids came in too high because they couldn't use some larger equipment. The City modified the specs and the bids came within budget then.
The valley floor is mostly made of dirt that used to be the Grand Canyon. It’s flat and irrigated by concrete canals. They run into the fields which drain into dirt canals aka ditches locally called drains that all drain into the New River and eventually the salton sea. The red was on fire, we were approx blue. You can see the raised dirt lot with hay stacks on it behind my truck.
