A $47,000 federal grant secured by the Alaska Division of Parks should complete reconstruction of the Battery Point trail by next year, parks officials said recently. That’s good news to area hikers.
“It’s a gorgeous trail,” said Paul Swift, a longtime local hiker and mountaineer. “Locals use it year-round very faithfully. Now that it goes even farther, it will probably get even more use.”
Work on the mile-long project has seen “multiple incarnations” since starting…
