Photo By Kimberly Derryberry | An aerial view of the area being cleared at Hanson Hills Recreation Area, Grayling,...... read more read more
Subscribe
GRAYLING, Mich. – Hanson Hills Recreation Area in Grayling is currently being expanded in order to add a tubing hill and lift, and there is potential for the project to be completed jointly between the Michigan National Guard and the Hanson Hills Recreation Authority.
Hanson Hills personnel have nearly finished the clearing process. According to Billy Partello, the maintenance director for Hanson Hills, it has taken three workers about two weeks to clear a roughly 75-yards-wide swath down the hill.
Once the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs in Lansing grants approval, Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center personnel will begin the process of removing stumps and dozing and grading the hill, which will be a two-week process.
“Hanson is part of camp property, so we’re going to go ahead and do whatever we can to help them out,” said Sgt. 1st Class Edward Desjarden, senior heavy equipment operator at Camp Grayling.
In addition to clearing land for the new tubing hill, the trees in front of the Grayling Military Cemetery are being cleared to provide better visibility of the gravesites that most people didn’t know existed. The cemetery consists of two graves, both of Soldiers who perished in the early days of Camp Grayling, and is nestled atop Mt. Franklin, which is the proper name for the primary terrain feature of Hanson Hills Recreation Area.
| Date Taken: | 08.20.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 08.22.2014 08:46 |
| Story ID: | 140122 |
| Location: | GRAYLING, MICHIGAN, US |
| Web Views: | 113 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
This work, Guard, Hanson Hills coordinate for expansion, by CPT Brian Anderson, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright.
No keywords found.
