The Town of Culver is pleased to announce that we have recently been awarded $666,000 in Federal Highway Administration funds through the Indiana Department of Transportation! The award is for construction of Lake Maxinkuckee Trails Phase 3 beginning in fall of 2024. Additional funds for engineering will be awarded at a later date. The total project is expected to create approximately 1 mile of new trail with an estimated total budget of $1.1 million. The town will be responsible for providing a 20% local match to the awarded funds, a total of approximately $220,000 over the next five years.
The town submitted a funding request in late fall 2018 for the next phase of Lake Maxinkuckee Trails, a section of trail that will connect the existing trail through the park to Culver Academies campus and east along State Road 10, ending near the intersection with East Shore Drive. In 2018, the Marshall County Commissioners, County Council, and Marshall County Highway Department provided an in-kind donation to pave the first mile of the Lake Maxinkuckee Trail through Culver Park, along with support from the Marshall County Community Foundation. Phase Two of the trail will connect the park and existing trail to Culver’s downtown and the southern end of town on South Main Street and was awarded funding through the Stellar Communities program. Phase Two is scheduled for construction in fall of 2022.
