By Jessica Boehm | Arizona Republic
Nearly 20 years after the idea was born and 15 years after development began, Maricopa County has finished a 315-mile trail that circles the entire county.
The last leg of the Maricopa Trail, which links10 of the county’s regional parks, was completed this Fall when the county finally acquired four small sections of state trust land.
The pieces of trail were “somewhat insignificant in the grand scheme of things,” but essential to complete the mission the county had set out to accomplish decades ago, Maricopa County Parks and Recreation Director R.J. Cardin said.
