- Paving overlay on Garden Park Road will resume next summer just south of the Cooper Mountain Ranch turnoff using State Gaming Grant dollars
The Fremont County Board of Commissioners has been notified that the county will receive a $400,000 grant from Colorado Gaming Impact Funds for additional improvements to roads that carry gaming traffic to Cripple Creek.
Colorado Department of Local Affairs Director Susan Kirkpatrick notified the Commissioners that the $400,000 grant is earmarked for improvements to County Road 9, the Garden Park Road north of Cañon City. The Fremont County Department of Transportation will use the funds for a two-inch asphalt overlay on Garden Park Road over a distance of four miles along with lane striping of the new pavement. The work will be completed in the summer of 2011. The pavement work will be a continuation of approximately three miles of asphalt overlay completed this past summer on Garden Park Road.
Fremont County Transportation Director Tony Adamic and County Commission Chairman Ed Norden appeared before the Limited Gaming Impact Advisory Committee in Central City in October to make the grant presentation.
Under terms of the Limited Gaming Fund, grant dollars awarded to Fremont County for road improvements must be used exclusively on roads that carry gaming traffic to the Cripple Creek area.