Timrå nature walk, phase 2

About the Project

The project consists of project management, clearing, building a bridge over Åsängsbäcken, purchasing tables, benches, and signs, completing the remaining trail, marketing, and inaugurating the trail.

From the application

”We want to increase Timrå's attractiveness for visitors, even though the main purpose is to implement the project to link the infrastructure for hikers coming from the Y, Timrå Coastal Walk, and into the inland, especially the Mjällådalen valley with its fantastic nature. The project also represents further development of the tourism industry in Timrå regarding outdoor tourism and creates a better foundation for the tourism entrepreneurs in the area.”

LAG decides to prioritize the project as it meets all basic requirements and achieves more than 300 points, which means that the project is assessed to contribute to the goals and efforts included in the implementation of the local development strategy for Leader Mittland Plus.

The applicant has described in their application that the project's benefits accrue to the countryside, follows the leader method's fundamental principles regarding partnership, local anchoring, and local innovation, and through its results can contribute to the local strategy's Goal 1 a thriving and co-creating population through sub-goal 1B new and developed meeting places for all generations as well as 1D strengthening people's health and well-being, everyone's equal value, multiculturalism, integration, and meaningful employment in social activities, security, Goal 2 an attractive, sustainable, and inclusive living environment through sub-goal 2G, making nature and culture more accessible as well as 2A strengthening the attractiveness of our places to live, work, operate, and visit and contribute to tourism, which is included under Goal 3: A strengthened local economy with livelihood opportunities and competitive entrepreneurship through sub-goal 3J Development of tourism.