As a part of our Long term focus on growing the economy and developing tourism, we have embarked on a project to ID our main tourism assets and establish a strategic plan to develop these assets. I have said many times during the past 15 months, we don;t need to create tourism in Stokes County, it is already happening, we need to learn to take advantage of it. We have approximately 600,000 people a year visiting Hanging Rock State Park, thousands more that visit the Dan River and many more who enjoy driving our roads, enjoying the scenery, hiking our trails and many other outdoor activities. What we do not have is a well developed plan on how to offer these visitors to our borders an opportunity to stop, visit our shops and spend more time and money.
To counteract this, we are working to map our assets, bring our allies into focus and for the first time, develop a plan that will have all the partners pulling in the same direction.
The first step in this is to look at Moratock Park and develop a plan to enhance it. We have contracted with and experienced planner to assist us in this and we are very excited about the possibilities. There will be an opportunity to view notional site plans on this project June 24th in the third floor conference room of the Regan Building in Danbury. The meeting will be at 6:30 and we hope that you will take a few moments from your busy schedule to join us.
It is our intent go look for State, Local and Federal funds to complete this project and public support and participation is very important to our efforts. See you on the 24th!
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