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SMITH COUNTY \u2013 The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department awarded $6.17 million in statewide recreational trails grants to improve 21 parks and trail projects across the state, with $354,000 set to be distributed between parks in East Texas.<\/p>\n
The Park of East Texas was awarded, $300,000. The improvements to the park include a mile-long trail for motorized traffic like ATVs, UTVs and dirt bikes. according to our news partner KETK, The 6-foot-wide loop will include trail signs, park furniture, a trail head, a gravel parking lot and entry gate.<\/p>\n
Henderson County has been allotted $54,700 to renovate the trails of Gun Barrel City Park. The improved 5-foot-wide 0.95-mile trail will also allow enough space for motor traffic and be refreshed with recycled asphalt.<\/p>\n
In 2026, $3.675 million in National Recreational Trail Funds (NRTF) were given to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department\u2019s Recreational Trails Grants Program. In addition to NRTF funds, $1.59 million of the state Sporting Goods Sales Tax was set aside for Texas trail projects.<\/p>\n
The NRTF uses a portion of the federal gas tax revenue created by fuel purchases for off-highway vehicles to fund trail construction for a mix of motorized and non-motorized trail projects around the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SMITH COUNTY \u2013 The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department awarded $6.17 million in statewide recreational trails grants to improve 21 parks and trail projects across the state, with $354,000 set to be distributed between parks in East Texas. The Park of East Texas was awarded, $300,000. The improvements to the park include a mile-long trail … Continue reading $300K for park improvements<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1179649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unassigned"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 21:14:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1511944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511954,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511944\/revisions\/1511954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1179649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1511944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1511944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1511944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}