{"id":320869,"date":"2026-06-03T12:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320869\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:51:08","slug":"2-east-texas-parks-receive-grant-money-to-improve-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320869\/","title":{"rendered":"2 East Texas parks receive grant money to improve trails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER, Texas \u2014 Two East Texas parks received funding to expand trails through the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department\u2019s Recreational Trails Grants Program.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Park of East Texas, Inc., which hosts the East Texas State Fair in Tyler in the fall, was given $300,000 for its trails. The funding will go toward construction of a 1-mile, 6-foot-wide looped decomposed granite trail with a gravel parking lot, trailhead, signage, site furniture and entry gate. The park is located at 204 Patton Lane in Tyler.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbs19.tv\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Gun Barrel City Park Trails will be refreshed with the renovation of the 0.95-mile, 5-foot-wide recycled asphalt trail. Gun Barrel City received $54,700 for the project.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved over $6.17 million in grants in May to fund 21 trail construction and maintenance projects across the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The grants are supported through the National Recreational Trails Fund. The money has to be used for a diverse mix of both motorized and non-motorized trail projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas \u2014 Two East Texas parks received funding to expand trails through the Texas Parks and Wildlife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-320869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}