Updated: June 1, 2016 Published: July 25, 2014
Dan Gleason, Barbara Hood, Cathy Gleason and Mike Coumbe, original members of Friends of the Coastal Trail, travel along the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail on Thursday, July 24, 2014 through Point Woronzof Park during a 20th anniversary celebration for 191-acre Municipal park located about a mile south of the Point Woronzof Overlook parking lot. Point Woronzof Park was created in 1994 as permanently dedicated Municipal parkland as part of a compromise land trade agreement between the MOA and Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.
Point Woronzof Park is a 191-acre area just south of a favorite spot for sunset viewers and cyclists near the airport on the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail. The park was permanently dedicated in July 1994. Now 20 years old, the park is a beautiful stretch of birch and spruce and cottonwood forest near the coast.
On Thursday, park supporters gathered to celebrate the history of the park and remember how it was created.
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