Greenbelt Trail–Klondike Access

Greenbelt Trail–Klondike Access. . , The Greenbelt trail was the first city trail developed in what is now referred to as the Clear Creek Trail System. The Buffalo Greenbelt Park in which this trail is located was provided to the City of Buffalo by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) through the Recreation and Public Purposes Act. In February of 1982, the City of Buffalo and the Bureau of Land Management completed a plan of development for the Buffalo Greenbelt, and title to 262 acres of land was deeded to the city on April 11, 1983., It was Emil O. Hecht (mayor from 1976 to 1986) who initiated construction of Buffalo's first trail in the recently acquired greenbelt. In 1983, when Mayor Hecht suffered a heart attack, regular exercise was prescribed. Mayor Hecht and community member Emerson Scott placed an advertisement in the local newspaper asking for volunteers to begin work on the city's first trail, one that would follow along the banks of Clear Creek., When no other community members showed up, the two men staked and bladed the trail from Klondike Drive to the Wyoming Veterans' Home Pasture in 96 hours using the city backhoe and dump truck. The city's Public Works Department completed trail construction in 1983.