{"id":60028,"date":"2024-09-19T20:57:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T00:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=60028"},"modified":"2024-09-19T20:57:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T00:57:15","slug":"linear-park-along-able-canal-coming-to-lehigh-acres-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2024\/09\/linear-park-along-able-canal-coming-to-lehigh-acres-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Linear Park along Able Canal coming to Lehigh Acres in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Expect a new park in Lehigh Acres in the fall of 2026. Lee County will build a six-mile linear park for people to enjoy along Able Canal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The linear park will stretch six miles from Harns Marsh to Joel Boulevard.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"654\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-62.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60029\" style=\"width:835px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-62.png 654w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-62-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The 12-foot-wide path will include a bridge for walkers and bike riders as well as a few shade structures along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The path will connect Harns Marsh, Lehigh Acres Park, Lehigh Elementary School, and the Lehigh Acres Trailhead Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the Lehigh Acres Municipal Services Improvement District manages Able Canal and owns the property along the canal for the park, they&#8217;ve helped with design process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LAMSID Director Dave Lindsay says they appreciate the partnership they have with county to build this for the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have some parks here in town, but if people want to take a long bicycle ride or a long walk, a lot of time you have to do it along a dangerous road,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This will be a nice place for people to safely exercise and get out and get some fresh air.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The county says construction will start later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expect a new park in Lehigh Acres in the fall of 2026. Lee County will build a six-mile linear park for people to enjoy along Able Canal. The linear park&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":60029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60030,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60028\/revisions\/60030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}