The Friends of Kooloonbung Creek Nature Park have announced the walking trail upgrades on the western side of the park are now complete.
With thanks to $25,000 community funding from the Newcastle Permanent Charitable Foundation, another 200m of walking trail has been sealed.
Priority for the track improvements was given to an often muddy area that was impassable during wet weather.
The Friends of Kooloonbung committee employed local contractor, Mike Medcalf, to supply and install the asphalt for this section of the bushland walking circuit. The project involved the Friends’ volunteers preparing the earthen track surface.
Finally Mike’s whole team moved hot asphalt by bobcat and wheelbarrows, then raked and rolled the new pavement.
The Friends of Kooloonbung treasurer Kevin Jordan said he was grateful that the Newcastle Permanent Charitable Foundation had once again funded a project in the park and that Mike and his team had done a great job asphalting the track.
Pedestrians can now walk safely through the park, from the entrance near the scout halls on Hollingsworth St to the entrance on Gordon St.
The project site was inspected recently by the Friends of Kooloonbung executive committee and the local Newcastle Permanent Branch Manager, Jose Ustariz.
