Rebuilding the Iron Bridge Trail

Under the capable leadership of Grandon Harris, a team of BRC volunteers and C&W Trucking rebuilt a major part of the Iron Bridge Trail. The trail had gullied and eroded due to water runoff from a culvert above on Rice Street. The City of Bayfield redirected the culvert and provided funds to repair the trail.


Thanks to volunteers Martin Burkel, Dick Carver, Bob Ewald, David Harju, Grandon Harris, Gene Lemmenes, Dennis McCann, Mark Musolf, Art Ode, Bill Peterson, Sheree Peterson and Phil Peterson the railroad ties were dug and installed as cross bars to construct terrace steps going up the trail.



The bobcat crossed the waterway on a culvert topped with heavy landscape fabric and gravel. This technique minimized disturbance to the water, and in a short while, you wouldn't even know that a big piece of machinery had crossed the creek.













The trail is much safer now and the gullies are repaired.. If you follow the trail from the parking lot on Washington Avenue in Bayfield, you traverse this new trail section until you are under the Iron Bridge.














Then a series of elevated boardwalks takes you up to a level pine-needle covered trail.













Walk along the creek and small pools...

















and then walk up the creek (just past the "End of Trail" sign) to a sweet little waterfall.