Tag Archives: trails in Kodiak

Borough to Update Comprehensive Parks and Recreation Plan

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The borough Community Development Department is working toward the first Comprehensive Parks and Recreation Plan update since the 1980s. Part of that will include a thorough idea of the borough’s walkable sites. Associate planner Daniel McKenna-Foster gave the Parks and Recreation Committee a look at newly mapped trails in the Monashka Mountain Area. An interactive online resource includes …

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Nonprofit Ensures Continued Access to Local Trails

Trailhead for Lake Gertrude Trail. Photo byJ. Stephen Conn / Flickr Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kodiak hikers are rediscovering local trails now that the weather is nice, and the ongoing walkability of those paths is largely due to their caretakers. In some spots, the park service or the Kodiak Island Borough are responsible, but in other areas, the nonprofit Island Trails Network …

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