Red Bank breaks ground on Godsey Ridge Trail

Staff photo by Matt Hamilton / Red Bank parks and recreation manager Jeffrey Grabe, middle, hands out shovels during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Godsey Ridge Trail near the Red Bank Community Center. Staff photo by Matt Hamilton / Red Bank parks and recreation manager Jeffrey Grabe, middle, hands out shovels during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Godsey Ridge Trail near the Red Bank Community Center.

By Sam Still December 17, 2025 5 min read

As the sun set over Red Bank, officials broke ground on the city’s first solely owned trail.

Where there now sits a tract of land, inclined and thickly wooded, between U.S. Highway 27 and the Erlanger North hospital campus, there will eventually be the Godsey Ridge Trail.

Project funding is fully covered by a state grant worth just over $400,000, city Parks and Recreation Manager Jeffrey Grabe said to a small group gathered Tuesday for a groundbreaking ceremony.

“Red Bank is a smaller community — 6.5 miles long, 3.5 miles wide, roughly 12,000 residents,” Grabe said in an interview after the groundbreaking. “So, when we have almost half-a-million-dollar projects that can happen in Red Bank at no cost to our citizens, it’s a huge win across the board.”