Sarasota County Rails to Trails Project
The Legacy Trail opens this weekend!!
Friends of the Trail website
In December 2004, Sarasota County paid $11.75-million to purchase the former CSX Transportation railroad corridor connecting Sarasota to Venice as a future multiuse recreational trail. The purchase was accomplished in partnership with the Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit land conservation organization. The 12.4-mile-long and 100-foot-wide corridor stretches from just over a mile south of State Road 72 (Clark Road) by Sawyer Loop Road in Sarasota to the southern terminus near Center Road in Venice.
