Improving, maintaining trails in Lethbridge’s river bottom focus of new partnership [Video]

LETHBRIDGE –

A new partnership in Lethbridge will look to improve and maintain paths within the city’s river bottom trail network.

The City of Lethbridge has formally partnered with the Lethbridge Trail Alliance (LTA) to protect the coulee landscapes and maintain trails used for mountain biking and hiking.

“One of the key goals of our partnership with the Lethbridge Trail Alliance is to utilize their position in the community to really help share that messaging of sticking to those existing trails,” said Andrew Sommerville, parks planning manager with the city.

While formal talks between the LTA and city began in 2022, the need to maintain the trails started in 2015.

“When city parks were in a different management, equipment was found to be digging a path down to the creek in Six Mile Coulee to put a culvert in,” said Ralph Arnold, president of the LTA.

“I talked to the equipment operator …