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Environment & Outdoors

Munger Trail to close shortly - sort of - for repairs and improvements

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published April 6, 2017 at 12:09 PM CDT

As Minnesotans gear up for the second of our two seasons (road construction), hikers, bikers, nature lovers and casual strollers prepare for the summer-long closing (any day now) of a five mile section of the Willard Munger State Trail between Grand Avenue and Becks Road in West Duluth.

Map of Willard Munger State Trail construction zone

As soon as spring road restrictions allow the DNR to move in the big equipment, they'll set to work repairing chunks of the trail still damaged from the 2012 floods. In addition, there are some new trail standards that will require some improvements to the trail.

The section of trail is scheduled to be shut down from mid-April to August to accommodate the work, but Marty Torgerson of the MN DNR says, where safety permits, they will re-open small sections of the trail for people to enjoy throughout the summer.

Updates on trail closings, reopenings, construction and improvements will be posted in the "Trail Notes" section here:

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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