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Early bicycling advocate Harold "Zip" Morgan first conceived and laid out a 64-mile (103 km) trail in 1939. The route made its way around the edge of the county and through natural resource corridors found along the rivers and lakefront. Three decades later the trail was officially established
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Bradley Connector is 3.3 miles (5.3 km) long. It provides an east-west connection among the Menomonee River Line, the Zip Line, and the Milwaukee River Line.
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Milwaukee County Sports Complex in the south to Hoyt Park in the north, connecting with the
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