Construction of improvements along the Chilkoot River Corridor is on hold until 2019, state park ranger Travis Russell said this week.

The delay is attributed at least in part to a federal grant request that would boost project funding to $1.6 million and make additional improvements to the mile-long road straddling the river.

“The project’s original scope included road improvements. We’re trying to expand that as far as we can now that we’re responsible for…