Providence Canyon State Park to expand


Southwest Georgia’s in style Windfall Canyon State Park is about to develop into bigger.

The state Board of Pure Assets voted Tuesday to buy two parcels of land subsequent to the park totaling simply greater than 1,700 acres for $3.3 million.

Windfall Canyon State Park

The bigger of the 2 tracts – 1,488 acres – is being purchased from personal house owners for $2.9 million. A lot of the funding – $2.4 million – is coming by the Georgia Outside Stewardship Act, which voters accepted in a 2018 referendum. The remaining $500,000 was donated by the Knobloch Household Basis, Steve Friedman, the state Division of Pure Assets’ actual property chief, advised board members.

The smaller parcel at 215 acres is priced at $409,000. The Nature Conservancy and Knobloch Basis are contributing $150,000 every towards the acquisition, whereas the Georgia Pure Assets Basis will provide the remaining $109,000.

The 2 purchases will enable the park to broaden its mountaineering trails and tenting websites, Friedman mentioned.

Windfall Canyon State Park, famend because the “Little Grand Canyon,” is situated in Stewart County west of U.S. 27.

Board members additionally accepted six different land transactions at Tuesday’s month-to-month assembly, together with the acquisition of two,409 acres for an addition to the Sansaville Wildlife Administration Space in Wayne County, 386 acres for an addition to Dugdown Mountain Hall in Haralson and Polk counties, and 375 acres for an addition to Morgan Lake Wildlife Administration Space in Wayne and Lengthy counties.

This story involves Tough Draft Atlanta by a content material partnership with Capitol Beat.