Visits growing along with shoreline trail in Lake County

News 5 checked in on a project that’s expanding public access to the shoreline.

We were there in 2022 when the groundbreaking of a new sediment recycling facility paved the way for a two-mile, ADA accessible lakefront trail that’ll eventually connect Fairport Harbor and Painesville Township Park. Construction on a new sediment recycling facility underway in Lake County

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Paul Palagyi, executive director of Lake Metroparks, said this week that they opened the first half-mile last May, they’re working on the next tenth of a mile right now, and are on schedule to be done with the third and final phase by the end of 2027 or early 2028.

He said people have been loving it.

“We’re seeing about 3,000 people a mont