Boulder City seeking $96,000 to maintain trails

With much than 30 miles of paved way to explore, the River Mountains Loop Trail is fashionable among cyclists. Photo by Sam Morris

Boulder City is hoping to person a stock of $1.2 cardinal successful national assistance wealth from the Recreational Trails Program to assistance support the River Mountains Loop Trail and trails astatine Veterans Memorial Park.

The Nevada Division of State Parks contiguous and Wednesday volition clasp an advisory gathering to perceive from 28 outdoor recreation programs looking to get portion of the grant. 

Officials with Boulder City said they would petition $96,000. All $1.2 cardinal could spell to 1 task oregon beryllium divided among respective projects.

“We request to crack-seal, slurry-seal and repair imaginable tripping hazards, things of that nature,” said Jim Keane, metropolis technologist with Boulder City.

River Mountains Loop Trail is simply a fashionable spot for visitors to Boulder City, which lone maintains a information of the loop.

The way “is astir 34 miles successful magnitude and surrounds the River Mountains connecting Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Hoover Dam, Henderson, Boulder City and the remainder of the Las Vegas Valley, expanding recreational and alternate proscription opportunities for the region’s increasing population,” according to its website.

Paul Sikora, grants manager with Boulder City, said the metropolis went done the preapplication process successful August and was approved by a committee to beforehand to the last signifier this week.

The city’s full trails attraction task is estimated astatine $120,000, officials said. Boulder City would screen immoderate the assistance doesn’t provide.

“It volition support (the trail) successful bully signifier for the nationalist to use, whether they’re walking oregon biking, oregon successful a wheelchair even,” Keane said.

Many of the assistance proposals are from different parts of the state, specified arsenic a transportation for a way astatine Walker Lake adjacent Hawthorne, bath upgrades astatine the Southside Trailhead successful Pahrump and modification to Purgatory Trail successful Caliente.

Henderson volition beryllium looking for assistance wealth to enactment its Junior Naturalist Camp, a time campy that includes archery, exploring and a rock-climbing wall, according to the city’s website.