- Dates
- 2013-09-23 – 2013-09-24
- Kind
- Construction
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- organization/little-traverse-conservancy
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- conservationrecreationinfrastructuretourism
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On September 23–24, 2013, Little Traverse Conservancy staff and ten island volunteers constructed a three-quarter-mile trail linking Barney’s Lake Road with the Kuebler Trail through the Scully Addition to Barney’s Lake Preserve. The work also added a naturally surfaced four-car parking area, trail maps, bench-cut sections, and blue blazes. The issue describes the preserve as 285 acres after the addition.
Evidence limits
The source documents the completed trail segment and associated improvements. It describes possible future trail segments as proposals, not completed work.
Open questions
- Were the additional trail segments described as proposals in the October 2013 account ever built?
- The preserve is described here as 285 acres after the Scully Addition — does this match the Conservancy’s current published acreage for Barney’s Lake Preserve?
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Sources
- Beaver Beacon, October 2013, "New Trail at Barney's Lake."Reports that Little Traverse Conservancy staff and ten island volunteers built a three-quarter-mile trail linking Barney's Lake Road with the Kuebler Trail through the Scully Addition, with parking, maps, bench-cut sections, and blue trail blazes. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2013-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held October issue scan confirms the trail-construction report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2013-10_Beaver-Beacon
Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Little Traverse Conservancy and island volunteers build a new Barney's Lake trail”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-barneys-lake-scully-addition-trail-2013/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 2013, "New Trail at Barney's Lake." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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