(Press Staff Photo by Geoffrey Plant)
Charmeine Wait, executive director of the Silver City MainStreet Project, looks out over a less-developed portion of Big Ditch Park just south of the Thomas J. Ryan Public Safety Building, near where she envisions a connecting trail to Gough Park and an arch to mark a now nearly invisible entrance to the San Vicente Trail that exists on Hudson Street.
Although it lacks an identified source of funding at the moment, President Joe Biden’s “America the Beautiful” initiative could be just what Grant County needs to take its outdoor recreation economy to the next level, while simultaneously helping address the communitywide effects of climate change.