Financial Management No.: 435471-1-11-01 Project Description: Public Alternatives Development Meeting- Coast-to-Coast Trail Sumter County Gap Study from Van Fleet State Trail to Withlacoochee State Trail In January 2015, FDOT commenced this planning study to evaluate the feasibility of potential trail alignments for a proposed 20-mile, multiuse trail between the Withlacoochee State Trail and the Van Fleet State Trail. The primary goal of the study is to identify a trail alignment to “close the gap” of the largest missing segment in the cross-state Coast-to-Coast Connector Trail (C2C), a 250-mile regional trail system in Central Florida that connects the Gulf of Mexico in Pinellas County to the Atlantic Ocean in Brevard County. At the conclusion of the study, summer 2016, alternatives that best meet the project’s purpose and need will be selected as the Viable Trail Alternatives to be advanced to the subsequent phase, the Project Development and Environment Study.