This Land, Your Land

National Parks Traveler reported this week about a state grant that will go toward rehabilitating a popular trail on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

The $75,000 grant from the North Carolina Recreation Trails Program will go to the Watauga County Tourism Development Authority to fix a two-mile, badly eroded portion of the Boone Fork Trail at Julian Price Memorial Park, the report says. Boone Fork is also part of the Section 13 of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail between the Grandfather Mountain area and Blowing Rock.

With the state money and $18,750 of its own, the tourism group plans to rebuild part of the Boone Fork Trail and construct a dedicated MST trailhead parking area, an information kiosk, and 700 feet of new trail adjacent to the Tanawha Trail, another portion of MST Section 13.