Longview is Getting a New Park

Longview is turning Lake Lomond into a park that will include a paved trail, a kayak rental, and a fishing pier. The trail should open in a year, and I can't wait to see it. :-)

I'm glad that this lake will soon be open to the public. As long as I've lived here, it's been fenced off and used as an illegal garbage dump. Longview and Gregg County are in desperate need of green spaces, and we don't have anything like this.

In fact, I am going to plan a little one-day bioblitz when it opens. Since it will be a year from now, I don't have anything in particular planned yet, other than it will be on a Saturday. I hope that we can show the city that east Texans do care about nature and want things like this.

@sambiology Maybe you'll come out here for that? :-)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/lake-lomond-donated-to-longview-nonprofit-will-see-changes/ar-AAPaMTM?ocid=uxbndlbing

Posted on October 17, 2021 11:56 PM by cosmiccat