Category Overview
The State Lands Development and Renovation category provides funding to two state agencies to repair, renovate, and develop outdoor recreation facilities on existing recreation lands. As the popularity of outdoor recreation increases in our state, these grants help address overcrowding, ensure our outdoor amenities are safe for public use, improve visitor experience, and allow more people to enjoy our great outdoors.
Project Highlights
The Department of Natural Resources will use this grant for campground and trailhead restroom development in the Blanchard State Forest, located in western Skagit County. Development costs will include A&E, permitting, purchase and installation of 2 sustainable toilets at the existing Lily and Lizard Lake backcountry campgrounds and 1 toilet facility at the existing Blanchard Upper Trailhead parking area. The primary recreation opportunity provided by the project will be improved recreational user experience and reduce environmental impacts associated with the increase in public use to the Blanchard State Forest.