It’s about connections...

The Cal-Sag Trail will be a multi-use path built almost entirely along the banks of the Cal-Sag Channel and Calumet River, open by 2014. Along 30 miles of waterway from Lemont in the west to Burnham in the east, the Cal-Sag Trail will stitch together more than 185,000 people in fourteen communities. It will connect them to regional trails, transit systems, retail areas, parks, forest preserves, marinas, nature centers, and the legacies of Big Steel, immigrant communities and the Underground Railroad.

Trail users will see barges. They will see bridges. They will see factories, and dams, and purple cone flowers and deer. They will see each other.

Sharing a vision

The Cal-Sag Trail will be built by trail advocates, park districts, towns, real estate developers, foundations, corporations, politicians, and public health agencies. But mostly it will be built by sharing a vision of a Southland enriched by a trail.

The Friends of the Cal-Sag Trail is a volunteer group that’s working hard and having fun sharing that vision. Explore the maps, the video, and the news links to the left. Then consider connecting with us by becoming a member.

See you on the trail!