The Greenbelt Trail was the first city trail developed in what is now called the Clear Creek Trail System. It is located in Buffalo Greenbelt Park, land provided to the City of Buffalo by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management through the Recreation and Public Purposes Act. In February 1982, the City of Buffalo and the Bureau of Land Management completed a development plan for the Buffalo Greenbelt, and title to 262 acres was deeded to the city on April 11, 1983. Emil O. Hecht, mayor from 1976 to 1986, initiated construction of Buffalo's first trail in the newly acquired greenbelt. After Hecht suffered a heart attack in 1983 and was prescribed regular exercise, he and community member Emerson Scott placed an advertisement in the local newspaper for volunteers to begin work on a trail along the banks of Clear Creek. When no other community members arrived, the two men staked and bladed the trail from Klondike Drive to the Wyoming Veterans' Home Pasture in 96 hours using the city backhoe and dump truck. Buffalo's Public Works Department completed the trail in 1983.