Archer Braid Trail Phase 2

Alachua County, Florida needed a firm to provide professional engineering services for Phase 2 of the Archer Braid Trail. The asphalt trail is 6.2-miles long and goes between the cities of Archer and Gainesville, Florida.

The project consists of an 8-foot to 10-foot wide, multi-use asphalt trail constructed along an approximate 4-mile corridor between SW Archer Road and Kanapaha Park.  The chosen trail alignment routes the path through the prominent Haile Plantation community and is adjacent to several schools on Tower Road.  With this user base in mind, context sensitive design and safety enhancements were implemented to ensure the trail met the expectations of the community. The DRMP Team excelled in responding to scope changes resulting from the evolving local environment. Sixty-percent plans were produced in three weeks allowing the project to stay within the base schedule and under budget.

The Archer Braid Trail project achieves an important milestone of the Alachua County Multi-Modal Transportation Plan to provide dedicated multi-modal connectivity between the City of Archer and the University of Florida.  The trail connects to the University of Florida and gives the community a recreational path to get outdoors whether it be for a run, walk or bike ride.