Owatonna Awarded a Grant to Connect Existing Local Trails Get our free mobile app The Owatonna Parks and Recreation Department was recently awarded a special grant to connect two existing local trails. The grant is the MN DNR Local Trail Connections Grant which the Owatonna Parks and Rec will receive for next year. This grant money will go towards connecting two trails in Owatonna so there are more trail options in the area. The plan that they shared on the Owatonna Parks and Recreation Facebook page is to connect Kaplan's Woods Parkway to the 18th Street Trail. The photo shared on the Owatonna Parks and Recreation Facebook page isn't the final layout for the trail, but it gives us a rough idea of where the new, connecting trail will be. It'll be called Kaplan's Connection and it will go through Kaplan's Woods. So the trail will be a nice, wooded area to walk through.