Commission helps fund trail upgrade

Baldwin County Trailblazers received nearly $30,000 from the Baldwin County Commission to improve and expand the Eastern Shore Trail.

This month’s grant marks the first time funds have been given to Trailblazers by the County Commission since 2006 — when the group received $7,500 to expand existing sidewalks and bike paths along the trail, the commission reported. The 32-mile recreational trail extends from the USS Alabama Memorial Parkway down the spine of the Eastern Shore through Daphne, Fairhope and Point Clear. The organization is expanding the trail to extend about a mile farther through Mullet Point to Weeks Bay Estuary Reserve.

Commission helps fund trail upgrade