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Connect Initiative Recreation Trail Design
This project entailed the design of approximately 2.25 miles of 10’ wide hard-surfaced recreation trails in two reaches. The northern reach commenced at the City’s existing West Main trailhead and continued north along the Uncompahgre River with an underpass crossing beneath the West Main bridge (Hwy 90) to connect to the Montrose Urban Renewal Authority (MURA) project. The southern reach started at the Community Recreation Center to the northwest along Dry Cedar Creek with an underpass crossing at the Townsend Avenue bridge (Hwy 550) to the existing Uncompahgre Riverway Trail.
This project which was partially funded by a Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) grant of $2 million. The Del-Mont team had previously aided the City with vital existing conditions of the trail alignment for the grant application, including a subconsultant who summarized potential environmental issues.
The trail design required wetland delineation, cultural survey, endangered yellow-billed cuckoo monitoring, FEMA “no-rise” certification, historical structure clearance, and CDOT permitting for both bridges.
Del-Mont did the topographic survey of the site, hydraulic modeling, and designed the majority of the new trails, bench rest areas, and connections to other park amenities along the route. For the underpass crossings, Loris and Associates, Inc. (a trail specialist and structural engineering sub-consultant) was utilized. Lambert and Associates, Big Horn Consulting, Alpine Archaeology, and Julee Wolverton were also on the DMC team.
Part of Del-Mont’s project support included preparing a detailed cost estimate and assisting with the construction bidding and award process. Design was completed on a compressed timeline to allow extra CDOT review time. All documents were completed ahead of schedule, allowing for a late 2018 construction contract award in the amount of $2,823,979.95, (13% under planned budget).
