The planning work includes studying the potential of a trail running from the Logansport area, southwest through Lafayette to around Covington.

The trails are also getting stainless steel markers with a numbering system that will help users know their location along each trail.

The Indiana Bike Trails Task Force met for the last time Wednesday to present its final report on connecting and improving bike trails throughout Indiana.

The single largest award in the first round of grants goes to the B & O Trail in Speedway. In all, $25 million is split between 17 regional and local projects around the state.

Gov. Eric Holcomb will use $90 million from the new Toll Road deal to build out trail systems throughout Indiana.

About $7 million would go toward trail projects, such as extending the B-Line Trail to Indiana University and expanding trails around Griffy Lake on the city's north side.

Southern Indiana property owners who oppose plans to turn an old railroad corridor into a multi-use trail are embroiled in a court battle challenging the ownership of that land.