Fairbanks borough files notices for Chena Lake and Tanana Lakes trail grants

The Fairbanks North Star Borough is applying for money from the federal Recreational Trails Program, which pays for trail projects, to start a trail around Chena Lake and to rework the Flicker Trailhead at Tanana Lakes, and residents have until Oct. 31 to comment, according to state public notices posted Friday.

At Chena Lake Recreation Area, the borough proposes the first phase of a trail circling the lake, which the notice calls a long-term goal, running north from the Plack Road entrance, with possible culverts, signs and trail amenities. At Tanana Lakes Recreation Area, it proposes a vault toilet, an upgraded parking lot, accessibility fixes and a better-defined trail where it crosses a flood-control groin shared with a park maintenance road. Both projects would run June 1 to Oct. 31, 2028. The notices give no dollar amounts.

Comments on the Chena Lake project go to Trisha Levasseur at [email protected], and on Tanana Lakes to Kimberly Diamond at [email protected].

The Parks and Recreation Commission backed both grant applications Sept. 21. Award status for the applications remains unknown.