The City of Graham received a Parks and Recreation Trust Fund grant totaling $307,725 to support the expansion of Bill Cooke Park. North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein announced that more than $8.7 million in PARTF grants were awarded to 22 North Carolina parks and recreation projects.
Bill Cooke Park has a variety of amenities already, including three baseball fields, six tennis courts and one basketball court. The park also has one nature trail. Recreation and Parks Director for the City of Graham Brian Faucette said they plan to use the grant money to expand the nature trail.
“We’ll take a larger look at what the property could hold, and again, a deeper look at what the community may want,” Faucette said. “But hiking trails are going to be the immediate thing.”
The nature trail expansion should be finished this winter, according to Faucette…