The Legacy Trail hosts 15 areas to stop and rest, including 7 trailheads which offer access points with free parking. The trailheads are located at Potter Park in Sarasota, Bay Street Park and Oscar Scherer State Park in Osprey, Laurel Park in Laurel, Nokomis Park in Nokomis, Patriots Park and the historic Venice Train Depot in Venice. In addition to the trailheads, users will find eight rest station areas that offer restroom faculties and places to sit and relax.
Near the access from Oscar Scherer Park, you'll find this old trestle alongside the trail's bridge...
UPDATE: Two years after first biking the Legacy Trail, I returned and biked it again and found it to be 5 miles or so longer thanks to 2 bridges over waterways and a massive and beautiful bridge over US Route 41, so that the trail now connects with the Venetian Waterway Trail in Venice. Here's my post for that trail.
Here's a view of the bridge over the highway...
....and here's what it looks like as you bike up the long incline...
County's Legacy Trail site
Trail map
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3 comments:
Very nice blog Chuck. Is the train trestle north or south from the Oscar Scherer Park trail head? I want to photograph this too. Thank you.
Charles -- the trestle is just south of Scherer Park.
Chuck thanks to your blog, I have visited the trestle numerous times. Thank you again.
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