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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
By late spring, sedentary secretaries, lawyers, clerks and other office workers in the town of Washington will be able to chin-up, push-up, squat, jump and jog their way through lunch hour on the new one kilometer fitness trail that will be part of the county’s first park.
This past fall, the Rappahannock Recreation Authority was awarded a 563,837 matching grant from the Virginia Commission on Outdoor Recreation to transform the recreation center across the highway from Washington into Rappahannock County Park.
The six-acre recreation center site was donated to the county as the local share of that matching grant.
Initially, the recreation authority planned to build two tennis courts, a basketball court, barbecue and picnic areas and a parking lot with the grant funds.
Project engineer Fanning Baumgardner suggested the addition of the fitness trail after seeing a similar trail at Shenandoah National Park headquarters.
The idea of fitness trails spread to this country from Europe, inspired by the popular Swiss exercise trails, the Vita Parcours. Baumgardner is using specifications developed by the U. S. Forestry Service which has pioneered installation here.
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