Lake Township Seeking Grant For New Trail

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Lake Township is seeking a grant to help pay for a trail project leading to Lake Township Park. Township Treasurer Bob Clark tells WSJM News they’re seeking to connect Bridgman High School to the park.

“It’s about three quarters of a mile from where we’re proposing down to the park, and it will be a ten foot wide, non-motorized trail,” Clark said.

Clark says this will enable residents of Bridgman to walk to the park without having to walk along a road as they do now.

“The main reason was just that it was unsafe. The park is getting used more and more by kids and people from the city, and there’s no shoulder on Gast Road.”

Lake Township Park features baseball diamonds, a pond stocked with fish, a disk golf course, and a soccer field. Clark says the township is seeking a grant of $500,000 and the overall project cost could come in around $900,000. It’s applied for funds from the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund through the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. They should hear back in the fall and work on the trail could start next spring.