Farmers Park Pavilion Fundraiser:  The Pelishek Nature Trail Foundation is currently raising funds to build a shelter at Farmers Park in Clinton. Farmer's Park is not a Rock County Park, but the park serves as access to the Pelishek-Tiffany Nature Trail. The pavilion will be available for use for family reunions and celebrations as well as a resting spot with ample parking and the restroom being closely located at this trailhead. To help fund this wonderful addition to the trail, the Pelishek Nature Trail Foundation is offering the opportunity to order landscape bricks. This brick installation will be designed into the landscape path, visible to all who pass by. 
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The Pelishek-Tiffany Nature Trail came into being as a Rock County Park through the hard work of Gerry Pelishek and the Clinton Fencehopper's Snowmobile Club.  Through the efforts of Gerry Pelishek, the site was purchased from CMC Real Estate Holding Company (the company that held all the real estate for the bankrupt railroad companies).  The land was held until Rock County obtained grants from the DNR Stewardship Program and Snowmobile Grant Program to buy these lands for a linear County Park and Trail.  The Pelishek-Tiffany Nature Trail is an average of 100 feet wide with 194 feet being the widest.  The trail is 6 miles long, consisting of 64.3 acres of land and was acquired September 26, 1995.  It was acquired using no local Rock County tax levy monies:  50% of the acquisition cost came from the state stewardship program.  Operation and maintenance for snowmobile purposes comes from the snowmobile trail program.

Rock County will be working with organizations such as the Pelishek-Tiffany Nature Trail Foundation and other groups and citizens to raise local matching monies to participate in other grants such as the stewardship program through the DNR to pay for summer trail operations, maintenance, and development.  This is truly a community based effort to provide the much needed public recreational opportunity.  The land was purchased for the use as a multi-purpose recreational trail from Clinton's east side to Allens Grove in Walworth County.  This abandoned railroad grade will have snowmobiling in the winter and hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, and bird watching in the summer.  The trail starts in Clinton or Allens Grove - the railroad never referred to points as beginning or endings, just terminuses.