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Texas Parks & Wildlife awards $500,000 grant
for Blue Hole development
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission on August 27, 2009, approved a $500,000 grant for development of the Blue Hole Regional Park as part of more than $9 million in competitive parks and recreation grant funding awarded for city and county parks and other sites across the state.
The City of Wimberley was awarded the grant to further develop the 126-acre Blue Hole Regional Park and Preserve, located north east of the Wimberley Square. The Park will include trails, soccer fields, improved swimming access areas, tennis courts, primitive camping areas, picnic tables with slabs, an amphitheatre, pavilion, playscape, an open play meadow, wildlife viewing stations, and interpretive and culture resource signage.
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from Wimberley View
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Count another victory for the Village of Wimberley and the Friends of Blue Hole, because the Blue Hole Regional Park and Preserve got the $2 million grant they requested from Hays County. The money will be used to accomplish the goals of the two-phase master plan developed with assistance from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
“Our goal is to preserve open space first and make it accessible to people, and also allow recreation on the property in a limited fashion to meet the recreational needs of the community,” Village of Wimberley City Administrator Don Ferguson said. More....
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