1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to natural resources; establishing the Cuyuna 
  1.3             Lakes state trail; amending Minnesota Statutes 2000, 
  1.4             section 85.015, by adding a subdivision. 
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 85.015, is 
  1.7   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
  1.8      Subd. 24.  [CUYUNA LAKES TRAIL, CROW WING AND AITKIN 
  1.9   COUNTIES.] The trail shall provide for separate alignments 
  1.10  insofar as practical, one paved and one unpaved, to maximize use 
  1.11  and to minimize user conflicts and maintenance costs.  The trail 
  1.12  alignments shall originate in Crow Wing county at the Paul 
  1.13  Bunyan trail in the city of Baxter and shall extend in an 
  1.14  east-northeasterly direction to the city of Riverton, Crow Wing 
  1.15  county, where they shall connect to the Sagamore Mine segment of 
  1.16  the Cuyuna Country state recreation area.  The trail alignments 
  1.17  shall then continue in a northeasterly direction, generally 
  1.18  along and using former railroad rights-of-way insofar as 
  1.19  practical, to connect with the main body of the Cuyuna Country 
  1.20  state recreation area, the communities of Ironton and Crosby in 
  1.21  Crow Wing county, and the Croft Mine historical park.  The trail 
  1.22  alignments shall then continue in an east-northeasterly 
  1.23  direction, generally along and using former railroad 
  1.24  rights-of-way insofar as practical, to the city of Cuyuna in 
  1.25  Crow Wing county, and then continue east to the city of Aitkin, 
  2.1   Aitkin county, and there terminate.