10 months ago
CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) -- The National Park Service says federal stimulus money will pay for resurfacing of about 60 miles of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park towpath from Hancock to Cumberland.
Park service official John Hitchcock told the Cumberland Times-News Monday that the $661,000 project will begin early next year and continue through September.
Hitchcock says the project will repair uneven sections of the popular hiking and biking trail and recover it with crushed stones.
He says a 42-mile section from the District of Columbia to near Sandy Hook typically gets most attention because it is heavily used.
But Hitchcock says the upper section is getting more visitors, partly due to completion in late 2006 of the Great Allegheny Passage between Cumberland and the Pittsburgh area.
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