{"id":33825,"date":"2023-03-17T19:31:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T01:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/san-juan-college-receives-99999-from-state-grant-money-to-improve-open-space\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:13:50","slug":"san-juan-college-receives-99999-from-state-grant-money-to-improve-open-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/san-juan-college-receives-99999-from-state-grant-money-to-improve-open-space\/","title":{"rendered":"San Juan College receives $99,999 from state grant money to improve open space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e902fa9c-fa4b-5d62-9784-e29a3ca8c97e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"San Juan College trailhead sign\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">San Juan College trailhead sign<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>San Juan College received a grant of $99.999 from New Mexico\u2019s Economic Development Outdoor Recreation Division to develop 133 acres of open space adjacent to Mesa Verde Elementary School in Farmington.<\/p>\n<p>The grant is designated for nonmotorized biking, hiking and other improvements, including a trailhead and restrooms. Four Corners Economic Development expects on-site restrooms would significantly increase the user experience, as well as support local and regional programming, events and competitions.<\/p>\n<p>NMEDD-ORD announced in a March 14 news release that it has funded 90 Trails+ projects across the state.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6a12ac6c-158a-5e78-80e0-26d3eabbacba&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Existing trail at San Juan College. (David Edward Albright\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Existing trail at San Juan College. (David Edward Albright\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>\u201cThe project will support healthy communities in San Juan County while contributing to New Mexico\u2019s outdoor recreation access and economy,\u201d 4CED stated in an email.<\/p>\n<p>San Juan College\u2019s current trail system includes 2.5 miles of single-track biking and walking trails around the campus. The bike park trail features a pump track, teeter-totter feature and various jumps and berms.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1a9ee5bf-6903-58ec-94a0-f262d60cbae4&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1091\" height=\"902\" alt=\"San Juan College\u2019s current bike and walking trails will be expanded through grant funding. (Courtesy San Juan College)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">San Juan College\u2019s current bike and walking trails will be expanded through grant funding. (Courtesy San Juan College)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College designates 133 acres for biking, hiking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[799,138,976,2378],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-33825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-farmington","tag-new-mexico","tag-outdoor-recreation","tag-san-juan-college"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82362,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33825\/revisions\/82362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33825"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=33825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}