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SMITH COUNTY – 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. According to our news partner, KETK – $354,000 is set to be distributed between parks in East Texas. The parks will receive the grant money for much needed upgrades.<\/p>\n
The Park of East Texas in Tyler \u2013 $300,000<\/strong><\/p>\n The improvements to the Park of East Texas in Tyler include a mile-long trail for motorized traffic like ATVs, UTVs and dirt bikes. The 6-foot-wide loop will include trail signs, park furniture, a trail head, a gravel parking lot and entry gate. 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 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 Up to $900,000 of the grant is set aside to support trail improvement projects in state parks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SMITH COUNTY – 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. According to our news partner, KETK – $354,000 is set to be distributed between parks in East Texas. The parks will receive the grant money for much needed … Continue reading Parks awarded $300,000 to improve trails<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8661,"featured_media":1512083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/01\/TEXAS-PARKS-AND-WILDLIFE-LOGO-200x113.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 02:17:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/01\/TEXAS-PARKS-AND-WILDLIFE-LOGO-200x113.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512041","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\/8661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512041"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512191,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512041\/revisions\/1512191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nGun Barrel City Park Trails \u2013 $54,700<\/strong><\/p>\n