Aldo Leopold High School Youth Conservation Corp (YCC) Trails Crew students recently built a switchback along the Silva Creek Nature Trail, immediately west of Western Bank's parking lot along Highway 180. The trail will ultimately connect the historic Waterworks Building and Penny Park.Trail Connects Historic Waterworks Building to Penny Park
Silver City -- Aldo Leopold High School Youth Conservation Corp (YCC) Trails Crew students - 16 10th to 12th graders - have been working since December to complete the Silva Creek Nature Trail from the historic Waterworks Building on Little Walnut Road to Penny Park.
The trail is part of the Town of Silver City's Trails and Open Space plan, and the restoration of the Waterworks property is a public-private partnership between the town and Southwest New Mexico ACT (swnmACT), a Grant County nonprofit organization, dedicated to cultural tourism and economic development in southwest New Mexico.
Bridgette Johns, swnmACT project coordinator, could barely contain the pride that she feels when talking about the youth and the great work they've completed to date.
"This crew has just blown me away," said Johns, who's known several of the crew members since they were children. "I'm just so proud of them, their work ethic and the sense of pride that they feel from participating in a project that benefits the entire community. They're really doing an incredible job, and coming up with creative, workable solutions."
