Cobb County’s Department of Transportation plans to connect Kennesaw State to other areas in Kennesaw through proposed new trails within the Greenways and Trails Plan.
The DOT held a public open house at the Cobb County Civic Center on April 10 to discuss and present the new trails. During the open house, the DOT explained that the trails plan will connect all six cities in Cobb and consist of more than 29 miles of new trail.
The Cobb County trail system is expanding and will include KSU along with additions in the entire Kennesaw city area. One of the priority trail projects, the Rottenwood Creek Trail, would connect KSU, Life University and the Franklin Gateway Sports Complex.
The plan is to have a “seamless connection from Town Center to Franklin Gateway,” according to a handout from the open house.
“There are multi-use trail projects in the works along Big Shanty and Ben King Road as well as connecting downtown Kennesaw with McCollum Pkwy along Cherokee Street,” said Cobb County’s Planning Division Manager Eric Meyers. “Several other trails are proposed throughout Kennesaw.”
The Rottenwood Creek Trail is expected to be roughly 10-feet wide and will have multiple access points. The trail will generally follow the creek but also runs along parts of Barclay Circle, Wylie Road and Cobb Parkway.
Meyers said there is also talk of trails connecting Kennesaw Mountain and the Town Center area.
These trail systems are a combined effort between Cobb County, the Georgia DOT and the individual parks and recreation departments within Marietta, Kennesaw, Smyrna, Powder Springs, Austell and Acworth.
The Cobb County Greenways and Trails Plan group will hold other public open houses where citizens will be able to offer ideas and opinions on their area’s trails. Meetings will be held over summer, but the dates have yet to be released. A draft of the current and proposed trails is available on the on the Cobb Trails Plan website.
A contact feature is also available on the website where citizens can ask and find out more about the proposed trails in Kennesaw and the surrounding Cobb cities.
