INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Department of Public Works recently announced that part of the Pogue’s Run Trail has recently won an engineering award. The portion of the trail that has glow stones through Brookside Park is a luminous innovation pays homage to the former road it replaces, which once incorporated colorful glass from a nearby factory, and the park’s beloved Feast of Lanterns festival, where glowing lanterns light up Spades Park. This trail was recognized with the Merit Award at the 2025 ACEC Excellence Awards ceremony. ACEC stands for the American Council of Engineering Companies. It is the first of its kind in Indianapolis.
The pathway is covered in a glow in the dark stone, making walking the trail in the evening easier to navigate. Pogue’s Run Trail runs 5.3 miles from the Art and Nature Park to the Indianapolis Cultural Trail and the Monon Trail at 10th Street.
A part of that investment is glow stone work, which is an homage to the multi-colored glass cullet path that used to be there in the mid 1900’s from Marietta Glass Factory at 16th and Sherman. Cullet glass is crushed rejected glass.
