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Rockingham, other counties in the region get funding for planned trails

Image shows plans for Bandera Farms Park in Summerfield.
Courtesy Destination by Design and Piedmont Land Conservancy
Summerfield’s Bandera Farms Park project is among those getting trail funds through the state’s Great Trails State Program.

Some Piedmont parks in Rockingham County and the surrounding area will soon offer more opportunities to hikers, bikers and recreation-seekers.

Stokesdale’s Hogans Creek Park will be extended through a 4-5 mile trail that offers elevation changes, a rocky outcropping and access to a creek that flows into the Dan River.

Money to develop the trail comes from a recently announced grant of nearly $300,000 from North Carolina’s Great Trails State Program.

The Town of Mayodan also received just over $250,000 to develop its Farris Memorial Park Trail.

Lindsay Pegg, tourism manager for Rockingham County, says the additions will help bring in hikers, bikers and other adventurers.

“We have four rivers, three lakes, two state parks. We have designations on two state trails,” she says. “And now with these additional trails that will be built because of this funding, that outdoor economy is only going to grow.”

Other regional grants included half a million dollars for two segments of Forsyth County’s Piedmont Greenway and a similar amount for Summerfield’s Bandera Farms Park Trails.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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