Build it and they will come, has been the philosophy behind the Grace Lake Boardwalk and Boreal Trail that Opasquia Trails has been developing. Recently a soft opening was launched to get people to use the boardwalk and trail to see how it held up and what the feedback is.
“The project is about 94 percent completed on what we wanted to do this year in order to have our grand opening,” said Opasquia Trails Board Member Al McLauchlan. “We’ve decided to do a soft opening, which will allow people to get out and enjoy the trail. We realize that people have been itching to get out and see the boardwalk and boreal trail. We were holding people off, because it was a construction area, and we didn’t want anyone to get hurt.
“We’re at a point now where we want to see people on the boardwalk to see the reaction from group of people and how it will go over. It’s well designed and built, but we want to test it out before we do an official opening of it.”