Littleton by next month will reopen a popular pedestrian path connecting a park to the heavily used High Line Canal Trail, ending a nearly five-month closure during a dispute between the city and a property owner over who it belongs to.
In a news release Monday, Littleton officials said a surveyor the city hired after the disagreement bubbled up Thanksgiving week — resulting in the abrupt closure of the 400-foot-long connector trail by the purported property owner — determined that the trail actually lies on city land.
Littleton officials said they hope to have the connector path reopened by May 1.
“After many unsuccessful attempts to connect (with the adjacent homeowner), the city ordered a property survey to determine the exact location of the public right-of-way and engaged outside legal counsel to conduct property research and advise on the city’s ownership rights,” the city stated in its release.
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Landowner cuts off public access to portion of popular High Line Canal trail at Jackass Hill Park Unified front to preserving “historic, beloved” High Line Canal takes rootThat research showed that the path, located at the intersection of South Prince Street and West Jackass Hill Road, did not actually lie on private property.
The path provides an easy connection between Jackass Hill Park and the canal trail for hundreds of cyclists and pedestrians a day.
Without that trail segment, High Line users in that part of Littleton have faced a one-mile detour on surface streets to reach the 71-mile-long canal, which runs from south of Chatfield Reservoir in Douglas County to a spot a few miles south of Denver International Airport in Aurora.
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