Edison Trail MetroPark

Located in The Village of Milan, the proposed Edison Trail is mostly a cinder railbed trail that generally follows an area of the towpath of the Milan Canal, which was also known as the Huron River Greenway in the past. This is an enormously historic area for the citizens of Milan because it runs along the historic Milan Canal (shown above) which existed from 1826 to when it closed in 1869. This trail begins at the bottom of the Main Street hill and the entrance to the trail is directly beside what was once the industrious harbor area of the canal.  A warehouse building from the Milan Canal period still stands beside the entrance to the trail. The area, that was the Milan Canal, runs beside the trail with a small crossover bridge at the Edison Birthplace Museum. The trail is a flat level trail that is easy to walk and yet primitive enough to allow the visitor to imagine that they are seeing many of the same things that the pioneer settlers may have saw when they first came to this area in the early 1800's.

Edison Trail - Main Trail

This area is generally divided into three areas. The first is the main trail beside the Milan Canal (shown above), the second is the Oxbow Trail which you can see below which follows the Huron River and is still in a primitive state and the third is the Edison-Milan Canal Basin Trail that leads to the garden of the Edison Birthplace. Eventually, Erie MetroParks will have an observation platform and perhaps new trails around the canal which will replace all or part of the exiting trails. At this point, in the fall of 2011, we really don't know the location of the new trail because EMP have a proposed new 2.5 mile trail in Milan near the Canal.   

Oxbow Trail (Beside the Huron River)

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