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Trail System This section focuses on the Lino Lakes trail system. The overarching goals of the trail system plan are to: • Develop an interlinking system of trails throughout the city that interconnect with regional parks and trails. • Provide reasonable trail access to the natural resource amenities within the community without unduly compromising their integrity and natural qualities. • Provide a reasonable and appropriate degree of universal accessibility to trails throughout the system. The greenway -based trails that link individual neighborhoods with natural open spaces and the regional park system are the backbone of the Lino Lakes' trail system. Through this system of trails, the interconnected latticework of natural landscapes, greenways, and parks throughout the city will be accessible to the public for enjoyment of the outdoors, nature viewing, exercise, and transportation. The trail system plan highlights existing and proposed trails that collectively create a complete and integrated trail system. The plan is based on three key principles: • It purposefully focuses on establishing the primarygreenway -based destination trail network that forms the core system of high value recreation trails. • It uses linking trails as a means to connect the destination trails together, as well as provide pedestrian -level transportation routes to schools, public parks, and other public facilities and commercial districts. • It is ambitious, yet realistic and achievable. The Park, Greenway, and Trail System Map (see Figure 2 -9) illustrates each type of trail within the trail system plan. The location of the trails within the system plan have been updated to locate trails within future multi - functional greenway corridors, to provide connections between planned neighborhoods, and to provide connections between existing and future parks. Chapter 6, Transportation Plan, includes additional information regarding the future trail system for the city. • •