What can the Ice Age Trail offer to its Cornell visitors?
By Ginna Young Cornell where? What do they have? There’s no way they have anything there for me.
That might be what a lot of people think when they hear that Cornell is an Ice Age Trail Community, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. To help get over this misconception, Ice Age Trail member Vicki Christianson is working hard to promote the city.
One way to do that, is by creating a map for hikers, highlighting what businesses and offerings are on the route through Cornell.
Included in that, are restaurants, bars, a brewery and a winery, ice cream shops, grocery stores, gas stations, a coffee shop, dollar store, hardware store, beauty salons, churches, medical centers, multiple lodging options, laundromats, banks/ATMs, a pharmacy, library, city hall, visitors center and newspaper, for information or history of the area, police department to report anything missing and a post office, to pick up pre-mailed packages of food and supplies.
“One of the unique things about Cornell…I don’t think there’s another trail community or a community period, where all the services are on the route through town,” said Christianson. “It goes past all of these businesses.”
Throughout the year, the trail section that passes through Cornell, attracts many hikers, taking in the scenic beauty that lies along the route, but the amount of trekkers kicks into high gear in October, as part of the Mammoth Hiking Challenge. Christianson intends to capitalize on those numbers, by showing what Cornell truly has to offer.
“There isn’t another place in the state, along the trail, that has that many businesses, used by the Ice Age Trail hikers,” said Christianson.
The Cornell Lions Club is conducting their 65th annual Community Fund Drive, to provide a scholarship to a graduating Cornell High School senior. The $2,000 scholarship will be awarded at an honor banquet later this spring.
Contributions can be made to the Lions Scholarship Fund at Northwestern Bank in Cornell.
The contributor this week, is Kathy Swanson, for a current total of $100.
