chicagotribune.com - Travel: Niagara Falls State Park getting upgrades

chicagotribune.com - Travel Headlines from chicagotribune.com Niagara Falls State Park getting upgrades 15 Jun 2011, 7:40 pm By Associated Press 1:40 p.m. CDT, June 15, 2011 NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Niagara Falls State Park, the oldest state park in the nation, is getting some special attention after its condition was criticized in a recent New York Times article. State parks officials say they're launching a three-part plan to improve the 126-year-old park along the brink of Niagara Falls. Parks Commissioner Rose Harvey said Tuesday extra crews are being dispatched to complete spring cleaning that was delayed by the rainy spring. She says the agency will also expedite $3 million in upgrades to the park's aging facilities and identify other priorities. The announcement comes nearly three weeks after a Times travel story described the park as "shabby" and "underfinanced." The park, opened in 1885, is the most-visited in New York's state parks system, attracting 8 million people a year. Chat about this story w/ Talkita You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.