It is not the first time the agencies sought funding to relocate the recreational beach and its amenities, but it is the first time they succeeded in securing a grant. Department of Transportation’s Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects Program, which funds the construction, reconstruction, and rehabilitation of nationally significant projects in, beside, or accessing federal and tribal lands. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service manage Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge and Assateague National Seashore.įish and Wildlife staff, with Park Service input, applied for a grant last fall through the U.S. “We’ve benefitted for 58 years from the beach being a national park and I don’t know what the town would be without it,” he said. “The beach is our lifeline,” said Chincoteague Mayor Arthur Leonard of the seashore that generates an estimated $150 million each year and hosts around 1.5 million visitors, according to the National Park Service. “We are thrilled to see these federal dollars go towards enhancing beach access at Chincoteague and Assateague – a project that will help preserve this natural treasure, provide visitors with a better experience, and generate more economic activity in the region,” the senators said. The money will help build a new access road, parking lot, boardwalks, and paving for a multiuse path to access a wider area of beach just north of the ribbon of public beach now in use, according to a joint release by Sens. The project is one step closer to construction, thanks to $17.7 million in federal funding announced this week. Plans to move the recreational beach at Assateague Island National Seashore have been decades in the making. The Park Service spends between $300,000 and $600,000 annually to repair the parking lot after winter storms, but a move to a more stable location is in the works, thanks to a $17.7 million grant. National Park Service staff rebuild the Assateague beach parking lot after a September 2022 nor’easter.
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