The Skyline Trail is only one part of a much larger Vision Fund project, though, scheduled to begin in 2013.   The landscape designer for the Parks and Recreation Department says this project will develop an official multi-use trail system that is accessible, safe, fun and sustainable.  Landscape Designer Alex DeSmidt says, "It will provide access to visitors, the community that lives here and it's basically a wilderness park in the middle of Downtown Rapid City.  And it will be open to hikers and bikers, at the same time it will be very similar to Hanson-Larsen and they've kind of set the stage for building a great park facility."  DeSmidt says they have more than $900-thousand dollars to develop the trail system.  He says there is no final completion date set in stone but he expects it to be at least a few years.

Brendyn Medina