Location: Dodge County, WI · Client: Dodge County · Services: Preliminary Design · Wetland Coordination · ADA Design
Lynch delivered preliminary design for Phase 1 of Dodge County's Gold Star Memorial Trail: 2.1 miles of 10-foot-wide paved route from Theiler Park toward the Horicon Marsh visitor center. Boardwalks and careful alignment minimized wetland impacts while keeping every crossing ADA-compliant through some of Wisconsin's most sensitive terrain.
A Trail That Remembers
Phase 1 of the Gold Star Memorial Trail runs 2.1 miles from Theiler Park toward the Horicon Marsh State Visitor and Education Center - a 10-foot-wide paved multi-use route through some of Wisconsin's most sensitive wetland landscape. Lynch delivered the preliminary design.
Boardwalks and careful alignment decisions minimized wetland impacts, retaining walls and accessible crossings keep the route ADA-compliant, and gold star pavement markings carry the trail's purpose in its surface: a tribute to Wisconsin service members who gave everything.
Delivered for Dodge County, the preliminary design balanced memorial purpose, wetland permitting, and long-term maintainability in a single alignment. The project draws on Lynch's transportation engineering practice for trail and multi-use path work: geometry, structures, and accessibility standards applied to a route people will walk, ride, and remember.
What We Delivered
2.1-mile Phase 1 route from Theiler Park toward the Horicon Marsh visitor center.
Boardwalks and alignment choices reduced impacts to sensitive resources.
Crossings and connections designed to meet ADA standards.
Gold star pavement markings honor fallen service members along the route.