recent transfers

parks by state

military closures
/reuse (BRAC)

Fiscal Year 2004:

• Historic Sand Island Lighthouse, Dauphin Island, AL
• Ballfields, Cross-County Trail, Recreation Center, Pensacola, FL
• Ohio River Boat Launch, Scenic Vista, Riverfront Park, Uniontown, KY
• Licking Creek Boat Launch, Scenic Vista, Riverfront Park, Wilder, KY
• Park Offices and Maintenance Facility, Huron, OH
• Natural Resource-Based Park, 3rd largest in TN, Chattanooga, TN
• Eisenhower Park Addition, Fort Worth, TX
• Trails, Camping, Ballfields, Festivals, Granbury, TX
• Camping, Link to Hatfield-McCoy Trail System, Williamson, WV.

Dauphin Island, AL
Historic Sand Island Lighthouse is transferred to the Town
Community obtains tallest lighthouse in Alabama

The National Park Service's Federal
Lands to Parks Program facilitated the transfer, at no cost, of a 0.23-acre parcel containing an abandoned Coast Guard lighthouse to the Town of Dauphin Island . The Sand Island Lighthouse is located in the Gulf of Mexico four miles south of the entrance to Mobile Bay. Constructed in 1872, the lighthouse is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as Alabama’s tallest lighthouse (131 feet). Stabilization and restoration of the historic lighthouse will be accomplished with assistance from the Alabama Lighthouse Association. Public access to Sand Island and interpretive tours of the inside of the lighthouse are planned. (Future transfers of historic lighthouses will be through the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000.) Top

Uniontown, KY
Surplus River Access Site Becomes Community Waterfront Park
Community obtains permanent access to Ohio River

The National Park Service's Federal Lands to Parks program transferred the Uniontown Ferry Access Site to the City of Uniontown, Kentucky, at no cost, for their community riverfront park. This 2.46-acre property provides a boat launching ramp, open space, and a scenic vista from a small peninsula extending out in the Ohio River. Formerly acquired and developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for boating access, the property will be operated as a community riverfront park and will be further developed with picnic tables and shelters. Valued at just over $15,000, the property is significant because it provides one of the few boating access sites in Union County, Kentucky area. Top


Wilder, KY
Surplus River Access Site Becomes Community Waterfront Park
Community obtains permanent access to Ohio River

The National Park Service's Federal
Lands to Parks program transferred Frederick’s Landing to the City of Wilder, Kentucky, for their community riverfront park. This 20.16-acre property provides a boat launching ramp, open space, and a scenic overlook on the Licking Creek, a tributary of the Ohio River. Formerly acquired and developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for boating access, the property will be further developed and operated as a riverfront park with walking trails and picnic shelters. Valued at just over $700,000, the property is significant because it provides one of the few boating access sites in the Northern Kentucky (Greater Cincinnati) area. Top


Huron, OH
Parks and Recreation Department Obtains a Permanent Address

The National Park Service’s Federal Lands to Parks Program transferred the former U.S. Coast Guard “Old Aids to Navigation Team (ANT) Huron” to the City of Huron at no cost for park and recreation use. This 1-acre surplus property, improved with several buildings, was valued at approximately $100,000. The City of Huron Parks and Recreation Department had been leasing the property from the Coast Guard for administrative offices and park maintenance facility and will continue this same use. Top

Fort Worth, TX
Eisenhower Park Addition
San Antonio gains critical last parcel within their regional park

The National Park Service's Federal Lands to Parks program transferred, at no cost, a 0.36-acre former Army parcel to the City of San Antonio, Texas, for public park and recreation use. The property is located at the entrance to the well-known Dwight D. Eisenhower Park and is critical to the park for continued unrestricted public access. This parcel, valued at $10,000, was determined to be the only part of Eisenhower Park which was not under the City’s ownership. In 1973, 323 acres were conveyed from Camp Bullis by the Federal Lands to Parks Program to San Antonio to create Eisenhower Park . The park has been developed with group picnic areas, playgrounds, and an extensive hiking trail network over the outstanding Hill Country terrain. Top

Granbury, TX
Suburban Fort Worth Obtains First Regional Park

The National Park Service's Federal Lands to Parks program transferred at no cost 1.04 acres to the City of Williamson, West Virginia, for public park and recreation use. This parcel, formerly acquired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a flood control project along the Tug Fork River, will expand the East End Park, which was acquired through the Federal Lands to Parks Program in 1999. Located within the Tug Fork River floodplain in downtown Williamson, the property will provide a camping area for riders of the well-known cross-state Hatfield-McCoy Trail System. Top