A connection trail linking Lehigh Portland State Park and the Southwind Rail Trail south of Iola, has been shuttered.
The Lehigh Portland Trails group announced the closure in a Facebook post this week.
The link is not a part of either trail system, but rather passes through private property. A 10-year lease allowing use of the trail was not renewed this year.
A privacy fence along the pathway featuring a pair of picturesque murals — one from Iolan Stephen Gilpin, the other by Kansas City artists Isaac Tapia and Rodrigo Alvarez — will be relocated to another…
