 Officials in Prestonsburg say it won't be long before the city opens a 10.2 mile trail similar to the Dawkins Trail or the Creeper Trail in Southwest Virginia. Mayor Les Deppelton says work is nearly complete on the former railroad track which will accommodate hikers, runners, horses and bicycles. Well as you can see over my shoulder, I mean it's so beautiful down through there. Canopy is great and this is just beginning. We're at Archer Park where one of our main trailhead is going to be. We've already got 300 parking places. We have restrooms that are already in place. And that'll be an ADA compliant ramp coming up to here, get you on the trail. And you can go this way or you can go that way and go back into town. The trail will go from Prestonsburg behind the Middle Creek Battlefield and into the community of David with information stops along the way. We have Daniel Boone who wintered two winters up here. In one of his books he says he killed 11 buyers in baby Kentucky before breakfast. Sounds like a late breakfast to me, but. And then, you know, we've got, there's a small co-scene up there on one of the rock cliffs. We're going to have that cleared off. We're going to have information up there to explain to people. This is a co-vane. This is what it looks like. This is the different ways they mind this. Mayor Stapleton says the next few months will be spent on the final steps needed before opening the trail to the public. The next phase will be forming this ballast, the gravel that we're on, getting it ready for the gravel, dense grade, and the paving. And then we also have a bridge contract we'll be letting out because there's six bridges up through there. You see it says 1904 and we have all this cleaned up. We've got some ideas that we think is going to be pretty cool, maybe a covered bridge. A few things we'll be looking at that are outside the norm. The trail should be ready to open by spring of 2020.