Fairy Stone State Park will hold a public information meeting on Saturday, February 22, to discuss the recently launched Friends of Fairy Stone initiative. The meeting will be held in Fayerdale Hall at 2 p.m.
Park Manager Adam Layman said the park hopes to restart its volunteer-based citizen support organization to assist with new projects, special events, and other ways to develop community support for the park.
“There used to be a friends group for the park, but it hasn’t been active for a while. We’re trying to revitalize that,” he said.
The initiative will assist Fairy Stone by hosting interpretive events and special entertainment events such as Music in the Park, planting and maintaining native gardens, and advocating and promoting the park and its natural beauty.
“Any other projects in the park that people would have an interest in helping with like maintaining trails, litter cleanup, lakeshore cleanup – anything that folks would have an interest in giving us a hand with – we’d love to have that opportunity,” Layman said.
‘Friends’ groups in other parks across the state are able to provide support in ways the parks themselves can’t always do, Layman said.
“If we have issues with staffing or finding funding for projects like receiving grants and that sort of thing, the friends groups are able to help with that a lot and really support the park,” he said.
For more information, call Fairy Stone State Park at (276) 930-2424, or go to its website at www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/fairy-stone.
