<div>TERRY — What was once a dream is now coming to life after a group of local organizations, businesses and volunteers recently completed the official first installment of a larger plan for an interstate trail network that will connect the Terry Badlands to North Dakota’s Maah Daah Hey Trail.Almost a month has passed since construction on a roughly $50,000 covered pavilion and signage along Ten Mile Road was completed to mark the west end of the Badlands to Badlands (B2B) Trail System currently in the works.According to Russell Schwartz, the project was made possible by a Trail Stewardship Program Grant administered by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, which covered about 40% of the total cost, and local donations making up the remaining 60%.Those contributing to the project, either financially or by providing service, include Austin Gifford, Levi Journey, Lance Kalfell, the Buffalo Rapids Irrigation District, Eastern Plains Economic Development Corporation, Bruce Lantis, Jordan Lassle, Dan Hauer, Ian Kalfell, Kaitlyn Jackson, Tom Pisk, Junior Fischer, Get R Done Repair, Leann Lantis, Sharla Sackman, Tony Aggdrie and Skeeter Engle.“There were numerous others who participated and helped,” Schwartz said. “I always hate to miss somebody.”While the new 20-by-38-foot covered pavilion featuring six picnic tables is certainly an asset to the local community, Schwartz and Prairie County Economic Development Council Chairman Lance Kalfell noted it is also meant to serve as the west trailhead of the B2B Trail System in development from Terry to around Medora, North Dakota.B2B is a nonprofit organization spearheaded by Teresea Olson focused on establishing branded stops from Terry to the Maah Daah Hey Trail near Medora with information about different outdoor recreation opportunities along the way, ultimately connecting them for hundreds of miles of fun.Schwartz and Kalfell are both actively helping Olson complete Prairie County’s portion of the B2B Trail System through a local five-year plan to establish infrastructure like signage, restrooms and water stations around the county’s different outdoor recreational attractions, including Calypso Trail, the Yellowstone River, Terry Badlands and more.“It’s kind of our focal point to start to connect everything that we have going on,” Kalfell told the Terry Tribune in 2024.With the installment of the pavilion, Prairie County has a head start on developing its portion of the B2B Trail System, with Dawson and Wibaux counties not yet having any physical infrastructure along the route.“We intend to finish ours and help Glendive and Dawson County and Wibaux County,” Schwartz said.He added that he and Kalfell were not originally the local representatives working on Prairie County’s B2B Trail System stops, rather they are simply building on work previously done by Burt Keltner in collaboration with Olson.“I can’t tell you how important it is that we didn’t dream this up by ourselves,” Scwhartz said. “Lance and I just kind of took what other people had started and then we ran with it, built on it and pushed it.”Although other parts of the B2B Trail System are not complete, anyone passing by the new pavilion along Ten Mile Road is encouraged to stop and check it out, even use it to spend time with family or friends.“It’s a great multi-service facility,” Schwartz said.</div>

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TERRY — What was once a dream is now coming to life after a group of local organizations, businesses and volunteers recently completed the official first installment of a larger plan for an interstate trail network that will connect the Terry Badlands to North Dakota’s Maah Daah Hey Trail.

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TERRY — What was once a dream is now coming to life after a group of local organizations, businesses and volunteers recently completed the official first i

Prairie County raises first official structure for interstate trail system

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