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Feature Photo – December 11, 2009

‘Tis the season on the Raccoon River Valley Trail! As the trail enters Jefferson, an adjacent homeowner Larry Murphy has set out some special decorations trailside to welcome trail users. Here you can see them here as a woman walks the trail in the background, and the rest of his property is a showcase of other Christmas lights. Murphy’s yard is well-known to most RRVT users as the one with the beautiful and varied trailside gardens in the other three seasons of the year.

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RaccoonRiverValleyTrail.org is your online guide to a 56-mile-long paved trail along the branches of the beautiful Raccoon River through Greene, Guthrie and Dallas Counties.

You will experience the communities of Jefferson, Cooper, Herndon, Yale, Panora, Linden, Redfield, Adel and Waukee. And, going east, the RRVT connects with the extensive trail system in Iowa’s capital city of Des Moines

Thus, your trail experience will take you from a very vibrant metropolitan area out into some great small towns, which are located in one of the most productive agricultural regions of the world. Along your way you’ll find the food, beverages, entertainment, scenery, accommodations and ambience that will make every visit to the RRVT a memorable one.

We expect to be adding a 33-mile-long “North Loop,” with much of the work happening in 2011 and 2012. That will include the communities of Dallas Center, Minburn, Perry, Dawson and Jamaica.

All that is why we believe the RRVT is “becoming one of America’s best recreational trails.”