The North Carolina Parks and Recreation Authority, which oversees the Parks and Recreation Trust Fund, recently approved $17.4 million to fund nine capital improvement projects and six land acquisitions for North Carolina state parks. Mt. Mitchell will receive $250,000 of those funds to purchase a 215 acre tract of land that will connect two sections of Mt. Mitchell State Park. Grandfather Mountain will receive $693,448 for a new maintenance area at Grandfather Mountain State Park.
N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources Secretary D. Reid Wilson said, “These land acquisition and park improvement projects will both expand our state parks system and repair and restore facilities and trails for the benefit of the people of North Carolina as well as visitors to our state.”
For a complete list of projects across the state go to www.ncdcr.gov.
