The 220-mile Singing River Trail stretching from Bridgeport to Muscle Shoals, connecting communities such as Scottsboro, Huntsville, Madison, Athens, Decatur and Florence worked its way closer to reality in 2022.

John Kvach, executive director of the trail, said grant funding and work by government and private organizations added more miles, but said more funding was needed to complete the work. He said in an earlier interview with The Lede, that the trail would cost more than $100 million and take at least 15 years to complete.

In the past year, he said the McCrary Family and 1818 Farms of Mooresville provided the trail with a 4,000 square foot home and a six-acre site to serve as the trail wide headquarters, event space, outdoor recreation center and a rural innovation/leadership center.

He said the Madison County Commission invested heavily into trail projects in south Huntsville and in east Madison County, and that the city of Huntsville added trail mileage in south Huntsville.

“We have also finished plans for a two-mile section of SRT that will connect the eastside of the Huntsville International Airport to the town of Triana in phases,” Kvach said.