page_title: Cape Haze Pioneer Trail
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Cape Haze Pioneer Trail / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Placida Bunk House
context_page_description: The Cape Haze Pioneer Trail is an 8-mile rail trail in Charlotte County, Florida on the Cape Haze peninsula running from western Port Charlotte to Placida. A vast majority of the trail runs along the right of way of the former Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway.
context_section_description: The Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway, which served Gasparilla Island, existed from 1907 until 1981. Charlotte County gained ownership of the right of way in 1985, and the first portion of the trail was built in 1999 from the Mercer trailhead to Rotonda Boulevard. It was extended over Coral Creek to the Coral Creek Golf Club in 2005. The southernmost portion along County Road 771 from Coral Creek Country Club to Placida was completed in 2010.
  Originally, the trail was planned to continue along the railroad corridor all the way to Placida before the Coral Creek Country Club was built, which used up a portion of the corridor. The remaining portion was built along County Road 771. A new bridge carrying CR 771 over Coral Creek was built to accommodate bicycle and pedestrian traffic as part of the trail extension in 2010.
caption: Placida Bunk House on display at northern trailhead. It was built by the railroad to house their employees and originally stood in Placida along the rail line
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