{"id":86071,"date":"2026-01-14T01:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86071\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:47:11","slug":"grant-funding-awarded-for-berks-county-park-and-trail-projects-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86071\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant funding awarded for Berks County park and trail projects | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKS COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; The state is chipping in funds for two upcoming projects in Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>First, the state awarded a grant of $1 million dollars for the development of West Wyomissing Park.<\/p>\n<p>That will be at the site of a former school in the 2100 block of Garfield Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Plans call for walking trails, a parking area, a tricycle track and other features.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be playground equipment with safety surfacing and a pavilion.<\/p>\n<p>The state is also giving more than $350,000 to add to the Schuylkill River Trail in Reading.<\/p>\n<p>Plans call for building about a tenth of a mile stretch of trail from Riverfront Drive to the intersection of Front and Penn streets.<\/p>\n<p>Lighting, making the trail more accessible and improving the landscaping will also be covered by the funding.<\/p>\n<p>Once all sections are complete, the trail will eventually stretch 120 miles from Philadelphia to the Frackville area of Schuylkill County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; The state is chipping in funds for two upcoming projects in Berks County. First,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,28,43061,736,128,130,129,231,9347],"class_list":{"0":"post-86071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-pennsylvania","10":"tag-playground-equipment","11":"tag-reading","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-schuylkill-county","16":"tag-schuylkill-river-trail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}