Land Bridge Trail

The Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway is a protected green belt corridor, more than one and a half miles (2.4 km) wide in places, that was the former route of the proposed Cross Florida Barge Canal. It is named for the leader of the opposition to the Cross Florida Barge Canal, Marjorie Harris Carr, and was originally a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers canal project to connect the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean across Florida for barge traffic. With a budget repeatedly funded and defunded, starting in 1933, only two sections were built by 1971 when the project was ultimately cancelled due to local opposition related to protecting the state's water supply and conservation of the Ocklawaha River Valley ecosystem, as well as national opposition for the costs being perceived as "government waste" with "limited national value". The canal was officially deauthorized by Congress in 1990, with the open spaces of the waterways and greenway handed over to be part of the system of Florida State Parks, including the Santos Trail System, and is managed by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.