Voters approved an $80 million bond issue two years ago to help fund improvements to the parks.
More than two dozen projects to renovate and upgrade Alabama State Parks are completed, underway, or planned to begin next year.Construction begins next month on a new hotel at Cheaha State Park, home of the highest point in Alabama, a project that is part of an initiative to modernize recreational opportunities for outdoors lovers across the state.
“It will have a wood, metal, and glass look and blend very nicely into the mountain,” Blankenship said. “I think it’s going to be a showplace for Alabama State Parks and for that part of the state.” “We really wanted to make improvements at our parks,” Blankenship said. “It had been a long time since many of them had been renovated. A lot of our campgrounds were built when camping was a pop-up camper and a tent. And now we’ve got these huge motorhomes that have three air conditioners and need a 50-amp service. We weren’t able to compete in the market with those. We needed to upgrade.”received a $13 million upgrade.
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