Alamance County receives grant for Saxapahaw Island Park

Posted on Posted in Conservation, Officer Report

Alamance Parks has received an $84,000 grant from the NC Recreational Trails Program to develop Saxapahaw Island Park on the Haw River Trail. The grant will support construction of the park's trails and trailhead, as well as the surrounding Haw River Trail/Mountains-to-Sea Trail.

The county has scheduled a waterfront design session in January.

An access on the island could be used as a take-out for the slalom section upstream in the tailrace of the Saxapahaw Dam or as a put-in for a section of the the Haw that ends at Old Greensboro Highway.

By Bob Brueckner

CCC Conservation Chair