Mancos Elementary gets $110,000 playground grant

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Mancos Elementary gets $110,000 playground grant

Project is part of master plan for campus upgrades
Fourteen Mancos Elementary students made up a youth task force that led last year’s design effort for a new playground at the school.
This graphic shows an aerial view of the proposed new playground at Mancos Elementary School.

Mancos Elementary gets $110,000 playground grant

Fourteen Mancos Elementary students made up a youth task force that led last year’s design effort for a new playground at the school.
This graphic shows an aerial view of the proposed new playground at Mancos Elementary School.
Southwest Colorado GOCO grants

Great Outdoors Colorado announced three other grant recipients in Southwest Colorado last week:
Cortez: A $108,000 grant to build six pickleball courts in Centennial Park. The new pickleball courts will replace existing tennis courts.Bayfield: A $225,000 grant to build a park at Pine River Library. It will include a nature-themed playground, a picnic area, a court for multiple sports, an outdoor classroom and more, and is scheduled to be complete by the end of the year.Lone Mesa State Park: A $6,008 grant from the new Director’s Innovation Fund to study how wildlife are impacted by outdoor recreation development. The study will count the wildlife species in the park using motion-triggered cameras, and compile information to inform any future development of the area.