St. Petersburg’s new Trail Town designation will bring one of Florida’s top trail advisory bodies to the city next month.
The Florida Greenways and Trails Council is scheduled to meet April 8 and 9 at St. Petersburg Distillery. The visit comes a few months after the state designated St. Petersburg’s Greater Arts District as an official Trail Town, a label meant to recognize communities that build culture, commerce and public life around major trail corridors.
The City announced the designation in January after a joint application effort with The Sunline, a community-led initiative focused on improving sections of the Pinellas Trail. St. Petersburg joined 22 other Florida communities that have received the designation through the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Office of Greenways and Trails…