# @chattanooga on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DJkLkw0A19q
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/30517688-chattanooga-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-05-12T19:31:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chattanooga Times Free Press (@chattanooga) — https://gondola.cc/chattanooga

## Caption

In September, officials announced a $20 million grant from the federal government would help complete the Alton Park connector, a trail to link some of Chattanooga's most disconnected communities.

The money, from the Environmental Protection Agency, came after nearly a decade of work and would have funded a section of the path from the Borough 33 apartments on West 33rd Street to Clifton Hills Elementary School.

In February, the first wave of federal funding freezes from the second administration of President Donald Trump began, putting a tentative pause on the project.

Read more at the link in our bio.

Photo 1 / Staff photo by Matt Hamilton / East Lake Park is pictured May 7, 2025. The federal government has canceled a $20 million grant to complete the Alton Park connector trail, which was to stretch from a West 33rd Street apartment complex across 2 1/2 miles to East Lake.

Photo 2 / Staff photo by Matt Hamilton/ East Lake Park on Wednesday, May 7, 2025.

Photo 3 / Staff File Photo / Motorists at the intersection of Rossville Boulevard and Central Avenue early Monday afternoon on August 13, 2013.

Photo 4 / Staff Photo by Robin Rudd / Community leader Maria Noel, right and Crabtree Farms executive director Lena Banks talked about the planned Alton Park connector trail and it’s impact on neighborhoods from the planned stadium site to East Lake Park.

Photo 5 / Staff Photo by Robin Rudd / The portion of the Alton Park connector trail, built by the developers of Borough 33 Apartments, ends near Broad Street, on January 23, 2025.

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