By Mary Giuliano

After months of work the Fernie Trails Alliance held the grand re-opening of the Coal Creek Heritage Trail.

The trail that is cleared and easily walkable. It is an enjoyable hike that is punctuated by new walking bridges over picturesque creeks, rusty artifacts and old stone walls that once held thriving mine offices, shops and other important buildings that made up the Coal Creek Mines and the town site itself.

The Fernie Trails Alliance is made up of the Fernie Mountain Bike Club, Fernie Trails and Ski Touring Association, the Fernie Nordic Society and Island Lake Lodge.

Thanks and congratulations go to this group of volunteers who are responsible for building, maintaining and enhancing the trail network in and around Fernie. Your work is important both recreationally and to the economy of this town.

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