District Receives $353,449 Community Economic Recovery Program Grant to Enhance Sooke Potholes
The District is receiving $353,449 from the Province’s Community Economic Recovery Program Grant to enhance the Sooke Potholes.
The project will include constructing two accessible toilets, widening staircase access to the beach, installing wayfinding signage and visitor information kiosk, and parking improvements. Construction will begin this fall with anticipated completion by May-long weekend 2023.
Sooke is known for its access to the natural environment and the Potholes are a signature natural landmark and popular destination for locals and visitors alike. The lower lot, District property, provides access to a freshwater beach and trail system which also connects to the Sooke Potholes Regional Park, maintained by the Capital Regional District.
Atop the Potholes, the Spring Salmon Place (KWL-UCHUN) Campground is operated by the T’Sou-ke First Nation. It operates seasonally each summer, from mid-May to mid-September.
Alongside the Sooke River and Potholes, is the Galloping Goose Trail – providing exceptional wilderness scenery and easy biking terrain along a former rail line.
The Sooke Potholes Enhancement project is one of more than 50 new tourism projects throughout B.C. that are receiving a total of $21.3 million for shovel-ready infrastructure projects from the province’s Community Economic Recovery Infrastructure Program’s (CERIP) Destination Development funding stream.
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